1986

Elena is a student in Minsk, Belarus. She has a passionate but increasingly difficult relationship with her boyfriend Victor. When her father is arrested, she has to continue his illegal business. In order to make deals for him, she repeatedly has to drive into the 'forbidden zone' of Chernobyl. She finds herself attracted by the zone’s deceptive beauty – but her life seems more and more contaminated by a destructive force...

Credits

Cast:

Daria Mureeva – Elena

Evgeni Sngadzhiev – Victor

Vitali Kotovitski – Vater

Helga Filippova – Mutter

Vjacheslav Shakalido – Andrei

Aleksei Filimonov – Ljosha

Aleksei Kravchenko – Geschäftsmann

Camera:

Philipp Baben der Erde

Script:

Lothar Herzog

Editing:

Stefanie Kosik

Lothar Herzog

Producer:

Romana Janik

Music:

Johannes Kaschek

Film info

Direction:

Lothar Herzog

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Deustchland

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2019

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

Russian with german or english subtitles

Version:

Runtime:

77 min