FILM
Un dimanche a Pripiat (A Sunday in Pripiat)
Blandine Huk & Frédéric Cousseau
France, 2006
DVcam PAL (Video). 26min. Color20:00h
Cines MaldŕProduction: Blandine Huk & Frédéric Cousseau, [email protected], +33 685 928 656
Photography: Frédéric Cousseau
Editor: Blandine Huk & Frédéric Cousseau
Screenplay: Blandine Huk & Frédéric Cousseau
Music: Hervé ZénoudaSinopsis:
Somewhere in Europe there is a forbidden zone, and lying at the heart of this zone is Pripiat, at one time a model city with some 50,000 inhabitants. On 26 April 1986, an invisible enemy forced the residents of Pripyat and surrounding villages to evacuate the area and escape. Founded in the early 1970s, Pripyat is now a ghost town. The land it was built on has reverted back to its natural state, but traces of its former occupants are still visible some twenty years later.
Bio:
Blandine Huk (Mulhouse, 1969) is a journalist and historian specialising in central and eastern Europe. She worked with Frédéric Cousseau on the film Sakhaline (2006) as assistant director. Un dimanche a Pripiat (2006) is her first film as director.
Frédéric Cousseau (Paris, 1959) is a rock/punk musician who began to direct films in the late 1980s, including Des pieds et des mains (1989), Bartolin (1991), La fatigue (1999), Le 17 au soir (2005) and Sakhaline (2006).
