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Pripyat

1999 · 100 min

A quiet, patient gaze at ordinary lives lived beside an invisible danger, more haunting for what is unsaid than shown.

Directed by
Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Genres
Documentary
Overview
After the catastrophe in 1986, a 30-km restricted zone was erected around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and 116,000 persons were evacuated from this area. Pripyat is a portrait of the people who still live and work there, and of those who have moved back. What is life like for these people, a life with the invisible and incomprehensible danger of radioactivity? How do they deal with the aftereffects of an accident which is claimed to be statistically improbable? Four protagonists tell their stories and provide a look at everyday life in “their“ zone.

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Directed by
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Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • isolation
    • survival
    • death
    • memory
    • nature
    Places
    • countryside
    • small town
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • documentary
    • true story
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence none
    • Sex none
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    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action0
    Horror2
    Humour1
    Realism10
    Romance0
    Tension3
    Darkness6
    Complexity5
    Emotional weight7

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    Details

    Genres
    documentary
    Directed by
    Nikolaus Geyrhalter
    Written by
    Wolfgang Widerhofer, Nikolaus Geyrhalter
    Cinematography
    Nikolaus Geyrhalter
    Runtime
    100 min
    Country
    Austria
    Languages
    Russian, Ukrainian

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