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.
A story is born
The idea for the movie was born in a trip of the director Doris Dorrie to Japan. "Every now and then, complete strangers would take my hand and show me the way. I've never felt so cared and spoiled in a stranger country and that sensation caused me a deep impression: being a foreigner and feeling everybody worried about me", the director explained.
A film reference
The title is a reference to Alain Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour (1959) which also deals with the trauma of a nuclear catastrophe, namely the Hiroshima bombing.
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