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Vive La France

Vive La France

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 31, 2014

Runtime

1h 22m

Genres

Crime, Documentary, Family

Original Title

Vive La France

Director

Helgi Felixson

Description

Kua and Teriki will soon get married. They live on the distant Tureia island in the French Polynesia, Pacific Ocean and have just been told that something is wrong with their son Maokis heart. It is a consequence of living only 100 km away from the island of Moruroa, where France has tested 193 atom bombs for 30 years. Several of their family members are sick and Moruroa can soon collapse, which can lead to a tsunami likely to drown all of them. Vive La France is a personal and intimate story about harvesting the consequences of the French atomic program.