DE

2006

59 min

Finished

Chernobyl: The Invisible Thief

Verstrahlt und vergessen - 20 Jahre nach Tschernobyl

Directing: Christoph Boekel

Synopsis

April 26th, 1986. The day when a nightmare scenario became horrific reality: the day reactor block 4 of the Chernobyl atomic power station exploded. While researching and filming this project filmmaker Christoph Boekel met numerous victims of the atomic catastrophe. His own wife was one them and she, too, died of cancer. A moving film told from the personal perspective of the director is a requiem for the often forgotten victims of the disaster and a caveat against putting blind trust in technological advancement.