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1986

1986

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 23, 2019

Runtime

1h 17m

Genres

Drama

User Score

53%

Original Title

1986

Production Companies

Rohfilm, ARTE, Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB), WDR

Director

Lothar Herzog

Description

Elena is a student in Minsk. She is having an intense but self-destructive love affair with Viktor. When Elena's father goes to prison she has to take charge of his business dealings to help him. She drives repeatedly into the restricted zone at Chernobyl, behind the wheel of a truck, in order to smuggle contaminated steel. The conflicts with Viktor escalate, and Elena is increasingly captivated by the zone's deceptive beauty...