Title: Fukushima, mon amour
Original Title: Grüße aus Fukushima
Year: 2016
Info
- Country: Germany
- Length: 108 Minutes (1 hour 48 min)
- Genre: Drama
- Studios: Olga Film GmbH Arte
- Distributor: Abordar - Casa de Películas
Plot
"Missing is living with ghosts". Marie escapes from Germany, her homeland, to find a direction for her life. Alongside the NGO Clowns4Help, she will arrive to Fukushima to do her best to improve the life conditions of the survivors of the 2011 nuclear disaster. But when she is there, helping becomes something out of her reach. Marie stays with Satomi, the last geisha in the city, and she will become her only friend there, and her way to build a future. Each one will learn from the other in a journey that will make them let the past behind and expiate the guilt they carry with them like if it were a ghost. German director Doris Dörrie, known for 'Cherry Blossoms', helms this film about the Fukushima drama and its consequences, with Rosalie Thomas and Kaori Momoi as the leading parts
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Videos
'Greetings from Fukushima' Trailer
December 5 2017
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Trivia
Hiroshima
The title is a reference to Alain Resnais's 'Hiroshima mon amour', which also deals with the trauma of a nuclear catastrophe, namely the Hiroshima bombing.
Few people
The way Doris Dorrie builds her films is atypical but it allowed 'Fukushima, mon amour''s filming to be easier. Since they use a small crew, very different from conventional big crews, it was simpler to get in difficult areas like the desolate region of Minimasoma in Fukushima.
Avoiding danger
In order to not endanger the crew by filming in the area around the Fukushima disaster nuclear reactor, the director took measurements with a contamination meter; the film crew took dust samples and was counselled by radiation experts in Japan and Munich.
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