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The Zero Years

The Zero Years

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 25, 2005

Runtime

2h 6m

Genres

Drama

User Score

65%

Original Title

The Zero Years

Production Companies

Last Picture Pro, Greek Film Centre

Director

Nikos Nikolaidis

Description

Four women, who have been sterilized and are under constant toxic restraint and surveillance, are serving their term in a government-run brothel. The relations between them are at a critical point; food and water are scarce, their house is rotting and ready to collapse. Nothing on the outside exists any more. Nightmarish visions, simulated miscarriages, injections and nausea all make up their daily routine. Yet their dream – even though they have been sterilized by the State – is to have a child. One day, one of their customers disappears. The interrogation begins...