Documentary

Voices from Chernobyl

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Based on the book by Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature, the haunting and beautiful Voices From Chernobyl gives scientists, teachers, journalists, couples and children a chance to speak about their daily lives, which were devastated by the most unlikely of disasters. Drawing inspiration from filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, Cruchten takes the audience on a spiritual and poetic journey through this horror, juxtaposing their softly spoken, angerless words – which reflect on the atrocities suffered by the victims of this accident — with images of mesmerizing aestheticism.

Data

aka: La Supplication - Chronik der Zukunft
Category: Documentary
Financing: Minority coproduction
Format: 35 mm, 100 Min
Release: 28.04.2017
Distribution: Filmdelights e.U.
Admissions: 666
Funding Film Institute: 150.000 €
Share of Austrian production costs: 95 %
Share of total production costs: 13 %
Co-production: Red Lion (LU, 85%)
International funding: Film Fonds Luxembourg
Funding program: ÖFI
Film location: Ukraine, Armenia, Belarus
Shooting time: April - June 2014
Days of shooting: 30
Completion: Spring 2015
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut

Credits

Production: KGP Filmproduktion GmbH, TTV Film
Producer Austria: Gabriele Kranzelbinder
Director: Pol Cruchten
Script-concept: Pol Cruchten basierend auf dem Buch von Swetlana Alexijewitsch
DOP: Jerzy Palacz
Editor: Dominique Gallieni
Sound engineer: Marc Thill
Sound design: Ingo Dulmilch
Costume design: Carine Ceglarsky
Production manager: Gilles Chanial
International distribution: La Huit
German Title: Tschernobyl - Eine Chronik der Zukunft