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CHILDREN OF URANIUM
COPIII URANIULUI
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CHILDREN OF URANIUM
COPIII URANIULUI

Copii uraniului

Adina Popescu & Iulian Ghervas
Romania
2009
62 min.

Director: Adina Popescu & Iulian Ghervas
Production Company: Bogdan Craciun / Libra Films Productions

Address: Bogdan Craciun / Libra Films Productions, Bucuresti, Popa Soare 52, Sector 2, Romania
Tel./ Fax: 021-3260268
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IULIAN MANUEL GHERVAS

Filmmaker of short films, presentation films, video clips. Assistant director for international co-productions.
Realizator de scurt-metraje, filme de prezentare, videoclipuri. Regizor secund şi asistent regie la co-producţii internaţionale.

ADINA POPESCU

Writer for cultural magazine Dilema Veche. Scriptwriter.
Ziaristă la revista „Dilema Veche”. Scenaristă de film.

 




Synopsis / Sinopsis
After working in the mines for decades, the survivors are there even in their dreams: in the uranium mine. However, in reality, in Băiţa Plai nothing resembles what once was. The “Avram Iancu” mine was closed in 1998 due to environmental concerns. The settlement is ailing. From the labourers of those times, few are alive. The once nice blocks are but a ruin. The people live by collecting mushrooms and selling them abroad. Because “who gives you a job, all sick and irradiated? We kick the bucket one after the other.” A black irony – even though the mine is closed, the traces of uranium can be found everywhere. The radiation level is high, the houses are double afflicted: from both the mine and the construction materials taken from the area. There is ore everywhere: locals can find pieces in the road dust, the children play in soil with a radiation level much above the allowed threshold. Above all, an innocent boy’s whistling is heard.
După zeci de ani de lucrat în subteran, şi-n somn supravieţuitorii se visează tot acolo: în mina de uraniu. În realitate, în Băiţa Plai acum nimic nu mai seamănă cu ce a fost cândva. Mina „Avram Iancu” a fost închisă în 1998, iar întreaga zonă a intrat într-un proces de ecologizare. Localitatea este suferindă. Dintre muncitorii de atunci, puţini mai sunt în viaţă. Blocurile, cândva frumoase, sunt şi ele o ruină. Oamenii trăiesc culegând bureţi şi vânzându-i pentru export. Fiindcă „Cine te ia la serviciu, tot bolnav şi iradiat? Ne duce popa tot pe rând.” Neagră ironie – deşi mina e închisă, urmele uraniului sunt peste tot. Nivelul radiaţiilor este mare, casele sunt afectate din două surse: de la mină şi de la materialele de construcţii luate din zonă. Minereul este peste tot: localnicii pot găsi bucăţi la marginea drumului, copiii se joacă în ţărână cu pietre ce au un nivel de radiaţie mult peste nivelul admis. Peste toate, se aude fluieratul inocent al unui băieţel.

ASTRA FILM FESTIVAL 2009
Programming / Programare
Thursday 29 - Hall A - 19h00 / Joi 29 - Sala A - 19h00
Saturday 31 - Hall B - 11h35 / Sâmbătă 31 - Hall B - 11h35
Films in Europa Competition / Filme in Competitie - Europa
APOCALYPSE ON WHEELS , Alexandru Solomon, Romania
AM I LUCKY?
, Tudor Giurgiu & Oana Giurgiu, Romania
BIRDS' WAY
, Klara Trencsenyi, Romania
CHILDREN OF URANIUM
, Adina Popescu & Iulian Ghervas, Romania
CONSTANTIN AND ELENA
, Andrei Dăscălescu, Romania
FUNNY SISTERS , Bjorn Reinhardt, Romania
MONDAY , Marian Crişan, Romania
MY BEAUTIFUL DACIA
, Julio Soto, Stefan Constantinescu, Spain/Romania
TODAY I WAS YOUNG AND PRETTY , Alexandra Gulea, Romania 
TWO OR THREE THINGS ABOUT ACTIVISM , Joanne Richardson, Romania
WE WEREN'T PEOPLE WE WERE NUMBERS… AUSCHWITZ
, Mia Telman, Romania



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