''Land of Oblivion'' (original French title: ''La Terre outragée'') is a 2011 film by director
Michale Boganim
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. It is concerned with the immediate local effects of the
Chernobyl disaster
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Plot
April 26, 1986, day when the accident at the Chernobyl disaster power plant shocked the whole world. Technological progress was cursed by millions, and for such as Anya, Chernobyl was a personal disaster — she was widowed on her wedding day; for such as Valery, Chernobyl — a synonym for lost childhood and a crippled future. Endless battle with yourself and fruitless search for what is worth living, it's not all the tests that had to go through the main characters.
Cast
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Olga Kurylenko
Olga Kostyantynivna Kurylenko ( uk, Ольга Костянтинівна Куриленко; born 14 November 1979) is a Ukrainian and French actress and model. She started her acting career in 2005, and first found success as an actress for ...
(Anya)
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Andrzej Chyra
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Life and career
He graduated from high school and in 1987 he graduated from the Acting Theater School in Warsaw. In 199 ...
(Aleksei)
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Ilya Iosifov
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(Valery in aged 16)
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Sergei Strelnikov
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(Dmitri)
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Vyacheslav Slanko Vyacheslav, also transliterated Viacheslav or Viatcheslav (russian: Вячеслав, Vjačeslav ; uk, В'ячеслав, V"jačeslav ), is a Russian and Ukrainian masculine given name. It is the equivalent of Belarusian Вячаслаў/Вацл ...
(Nikolay)
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Nicolas Wanczycki
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(Patrick)
Reception
The film was selected to Venice film festival 2011 and to Toronto film festival and another 50 festivals all over he world.
"La Terre Outragée will turn heads. This beautifully textured drama about the Chernobyl disaster and its long-term legacy was shot on location, giving the film a shocking sense of immediacy. The camera captures the sobering reality of the environmental catastrophe that devastated Ukraine. But the eerily vacant landscape is only a backdrop to the human cost of the tragedy, which is what director and writer Michale Boganim focuses on in her authoritative feature debut".FRom Toronto film festival Pierce Handling.
Critical reception for ''Land of Oblivion'' was very good , with
Variety
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praising the movie's production design. The French release was a critical success. 3.7 /5 . Allociné. The film was highly praised in Japan when released after Fukushima disaster . Indiewire's The Playlist stating that "it does slowly find its rhythm, and so the film rather eloquently builds a picture not just of the lives shattered by disaster, but also these after-lives that are defined by it.
Marrakech Film Festival '11 Reviews: 'Land of Oblivion' Starring Olga Kurylenko and '180°' The Swiss-German Version Of 'Crash' (Basically)
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References
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2011 films
2010s disaster films
French drama films
French disaster films
Ukrainian-language films
2010s Russian-language films
Drama films based on actual events
2011 drama films
2010s French films