La Terre outragée
Michale Boganim
26 April 1986. On that day Anya and Piotr are celebrating their marriage; Valery and his father Alexei, a physicist at the neighbouring Chernobyl power station, plant an apple tree; Nikolai, the forest warden, is doing his rounds in the woods nearby. That is when there is an accident at the power plant. Piotr, a volunteer fireman goes to put out the fire, but will never return. Ten years later, a deserted Pripiat has become a no-man's-land – a strange tourist attraction... Anya goes into the area every month as a guide, Valery goes there to find traces of his father, Nikolai persists in cultivating a poisoned garden...
With : Olga Kurylenko, Illya Iosivof, Andrzej Chyra, Vyacheslav
Screenplay : Michale Boganim
Image : Yorgos Arvanitis, Antoine Heberlé
Sound : Frédéric de Ravignan, François Waledisch, Leszek Mozdzer
Editing : Anne Weil, Thierry Derocles
Screenplay : Michale Boganim
Image : Yorgos Arvanitis, Antoine Heberlé
Sound : Frédéric de Ravignan, François Waledisch, Leszek Mozdzer
Editing : Anne Weil, Thierry Derocles
Production : Les Films du Poisson, Yaël Fogiel, 54 rue René Boulanger, 75010 Paris, France / Tel : +33 (0)1 42 02 54 80 / Email : contact@filmsdupoisson.com
Distribution: Le Pacte, 5 rue Darcet, 75017 Paris, France
Contact : Tel : +33 (0)1 44 69 59 59 / Email : contact@le-pacte.com
Distribution: Le Pacte, 5 rue Darcet, 75017 Paris, France
Contact : Tel : +33 (0)1 44 69 59 59 / Email : contact@le-pacte.com
Michale Boganim is a Franco-Israeli who studied anthropology at the Sorbonne and followed cinema classes with Jean Rouch. She returned to Israel to study philosophy at Jerusalem's Hebrew University and began doing photography. She then went to study at the National Film and Television School in London. She lives between Tel Aviv and Paris. La Terre outragée is her first feature. The film is a fiction with the Chernobyl disaster as a backdrop. An event which in itself has an impact on the private lives of the characters. Their impossibility to love and to live normally. Their relationship to their place of origin, their being ripped out of it so brutally changing them in time to being wanderers... It is also a film about the post-Chernobyl era, a modern hell populated by invisible demons which has been transformed into a forbidden area, but where some inhabitants continue to live and to work... A film on the relationship to your place of origin, wherever it may be, even if it is radioactive.