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Oxygen Station

Oxygen Station

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 9, 2023

Runtime

1h 46m

Genres

Drama

Original Title

Киснева станція

Production Companies

Silk Films

Director

Ivan Tymchenko

Budget

$880,798

Description

The film is based on the biographical events of the Crimeans' leader, human rights activist, Soviet political prisoner and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Mustafa Jemilev. Summer of 1980. Mustafa Jemilev spends a four-year exile in Yakut village Zyryanka, where he works at an oxygen station. Every day he fills rusty tanks with oxygen and rolls them to the dock. This monotonous and exhausting work makes him resembled to the mythological Sisyphus. The events happen after 300-days hunger strike, which made him known all around the globe.