Retour
( Une énigme radio écologique )
Luc Riolon, Antoine Bamas
2010 - 90 min - HDCam - Couleur - France
Despite radiation, nature has recolonized Chernobyl and is even flourishing there. Within the exclusion zone that surrounds the exnuclear power plant, there are ten times more wild boars than there were before the explosion, and almost 3000 elks, wolves and lynxes have returned.Many species of wild birds threatened with extinction in other parts of Europe have also returned.
Does this mean wildlife is outwitting radiation? The reality is more complex and calls for an investigation into the abandoned
forests and villages of Chernobyl. In this unplanned self-created? nature reserve? on the ruins of human habitation destroyed by the disaster, in this strange world where radiation shifts with seasons, radioecologists and zoologists are making extraordinary discoveries.
An investigation that also opens up new directions for research in the area of human radioprotection. And although the exclusion zone is still? officially? out of bounds, some people still choose to come? or come back? and live there.
Author-Director : Luc Riolon, Antoine Bamas
Photography : Jean-Marie Cornuel
Sound : Alexander Sheyko
Editing : Jean-Luc Guidoin
Delegate Producer : Camera Lucida productions
Co-producer : CNRS Images
Co-producer : Commission européene - Direction générale de la recherche
Broadcasting Co-producer : ARTE France
Contribution : Procirep, Angoa-Agicoa, CNC. COSIP
Distinctions
2011 - Festival du Scoop et du journalisme d'Ang, Angers (France) : Prix de la meilleure enquête scientifique2010 - Pariscience - Festival international du film scientifique, Paris (France) : Prix Buffon
2010 - Festival du film écologique, Bourges (France) : Prix du meilleur documentaire