Pripyat (1999)

Highly Recommended

Austria

Feature Documentary

Director/Cinematographer: Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Writers: Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Wolfgang Widerhofer

Documentarian Nikolaus Geyrhalter travels to Pripyat, the town in which the workers of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant lived prior to the disaster of 1986, examining with striking black and white photography the decaying remnants of the abandoned environment, meeting with those who make their living in the area and the few stubborn, elderly residents who still refuse to leave their homes, in this restrained yet very powerful documentary. Iain.Stott