THURSDAY, APRIL 26 – 8 PM at the RIALTO Cinema – 4 rue de Rivoli
-THE LAND OF OBLIVION
A film by: Michale Boganim (in the presence of the director)
April 26, 1986, Pripyat, a few kilometers from Chernobyl. On this beautiful spring day, Anya and Piotr are celebrating their wedding, little Valery and his father Alexei, an engineer at the plant, are planting an apple tree, Nikolai, a forest ranger, is making his usual rounds in the forest… It is then that an accident occurs at the power plant. Piotr is requisitioned to extinguish the fire…
26th commemoration of the Chernobyl accident.
Serious nuclear accidents are statistically improbable, some even declare them impossible, this is what the nuclear lobbies and their political spokespersons have been echoing for decades.
Life continues to naturally develop around nuclear plants with LOVE, JOY, PLEASURE … until the day when an accident occurs, like at Chernobyl or more recently at Fukushima.
Accidents that are never the fault of the nuclear industry: it’s nature, it’s man, it was a communist country… there have always been good excuses to justify the improbable and refuse to see the truth: nuclear energy has a significant cost human, financial, ecological, generational.
And then what to do? Can it be avoided? What is the true cost of ephemeral comfort?
