Final destination Krasnokamensk. A visit home.

Credits: 2013, Documentary, 86min.
Director: Olga Delane, Marianne Kapfer
Production: Marianne Kapfer
Supportet by: DEFA (German Film Academy)

Olga´s Siberian hometown Krasnokamensk has Russia’s largest uranium mine. After 16 years of living abroad Olga is coming home to question the worldpress’ verdict on the town: ‘contaminated, condemned, abandoned.’ Olga has to face the contradiction between her childhood recollections and the reality she finds. What do the residents, the mine workers know about radiation exposure? How do people live there? Where is her father she never met but who had stayed in the city ? Touching and light-hearted the film shows Olga´s search for the answers.