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The Dirt Behind Uranium

A film by Joachim Tschirner (2005 – 2010, 108 Min.)

The Film

Uranium mining, the first chain link of the nuclear energy production has always been out of the public eye. A web of propaganda, disinformation and outright lies covers its 65-year history.

The award-winning documentary “YELLOW CAKE The Dirt Behind Uranium” takes the viewers to the biggest active mines in Namibia, Australia and Canada while at the same time in Germany the film accompanies the most gigantic clean-up operation in the history of uranium mining.

In the East German provinces of Saxony and Thuringia the former third largest uranium producer worldwide was located. Operating until German Unification, it had the code name WISMUT and supplied the Soviet Union exclusively with the much sought-after strategic resource Yellow Cake. During the last 20 years WISMUT has taken huge substantial and financial efforts to come to terms with its past. A past that is today’s reality on other continents.

While making this film more than thirty new nuclear power plants are in the process of being built and today about 150 more power plants are being planned worldwide. The market for uranium changed in a dramatic way. Uranium has become one of the most sought after resources in the world: during five years the price of uranium increased twenty-fold …

Written an directed by: Joachim Tschirner
Director of photography: Robert Laatz
DOP team in Germany: Jana Marsik, Lars Barthel, Friedo Feindt, Christian Maletzke, Andrè Götzmann
Editors: Joachim Tschirner, Burghard Drachsel
Narrator: Jonathan Failla
Vocals: Wenzel, Nora Guthrie
Music: Fred Krüger
The complete Team: click here