Cast and credits
Original title / La terre outragée
English title / Land of oblivion
Director / Michale Boganim
Screenplay / Michale Boganim
Cinematography / Yorgos Arvanitis, Antoine Heberlé
Editing / Anne Weil, Thierry Derocles
Music / Leszek Mozdzer
Sound / Frédéric de Ravignan, Francois Waledisch
Costumes / Svetlana Poberezhnaya
Art director / Bruno Margery
Cast / Olga Kurylenko (Anija), Illya Iosivof (Valerij), Andrzej Chyra (Alexei), Vyacheslav Slanko (Nikolaj), Nicolas Wanczycki (Patrick), Serguei Strelnikov (Dimitrij), Nikita Emshanov (Pëtr), Tatiana Rasskazova ( Anija's mother), Julia Artamonov (Karine), Natalya Barteva (Léna)
Production company / Les Films du Poisson
Co-production companies / Vanderstatic, Apple Film Production Ltd, Sarkonela
World sales / Le Pacte
Format / DCP, colour, 1:1.85
Runtime / 105’
Synopsis
April 26th, 1986. On that day, Anya and Piotr celebrate their marriage when an accident occurs at the Chernobyl power station. Piotr the groom, is a fireman, and he has to leave the marriage to estinguish the flames. He never returns. Ten years after, Chernobyl has become a no man’s land and a tourist attraction. Anya is still there, working as a guide. Split between two lovers, she tries to accept the hope of a new life.
Michale Boganim
She studied anthropology at the Sorbonne of Paris and film studies with Jean Rouch, then philosophy at the Hebrew Jerusalem University. In Israel she also studied photography. She moved to London for undertaking cinema studies at the National Film and Television School. She directed a few documentaries, including Odessa…Odessa! in 2005. La Terre outragée is her first feature film.
30.08 — 09.09