映画「カリーナの林檎　チェルノブイリの森」Web予告 – Kalinas Apple, Forest of Chernobyl

Russian with Japanese subtitles
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Uploaded on Apr 16, 2011

映画「カリーナの林檎　チェルノブイリの森」Web用予告編です。
この映画を、取材途中で亡くなったカリーナ（仮名）という少女に捧げたいと思います。

Akiyoshi Imazeki began shooting “Kalina’s Apple, Forest of Chernobyl” in 2003, a film about a girl who falls sick by eating the radiated apples grown on her grandmother’s farm. It was a film he believed in, but he had never hoped for massive appeal.

His post-Fukushima 2011 re-edit _ with its juxtaposition of pastoral lakes and forests, so much like Fukushima landscapes, with the forlorn faces of children hospitalized for cancer _ is striking home with many Japanese.

The film was shot quietly like many Japanese classics, and the cast is entirely Belarusian and Russian. But the dozens of screenings in Fukushima are drawing positive reviews.

“They all cry,” said Imazeki.

Imazeki is convinced the parallels between Fukushima and Chernobyl are striking, and stressed “Kalina’s Apple, Forest of Chernobyl” dramatizes the tragedy of radiation.

“The invisibility adds to the turmoil,” he said. “Families can no longer live normal happy lives.”

February 27, 2013 - Posted by arclight2011 | Uncategorized