CLOUDS OF CHERNOBYL

By Ligia CIORNEI

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Historical - Completed 2022

Freedom is the only option.

Festivals
& Awards

Buzz 2022
Competition
Transilvania 2022
Competition and nomination for best feature
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Historical, Thriller, Social issues
    • Countries
    • ROMANIA
    • Languages
    • ROMANIAN
    • Budget
    • 0.6 - 1 M$
    • Duration
    • 79 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ligia CIORNEI
    • Synopsis
    • The year 1986 is the time when several women from northern Bukovina, from Iasi, Vrancea and Tulcea, were forced to have abortions in inhumane conditions, although abortion was forbidden. Much later, news arrived in Romania that the Chernobyl nuclear power plant had exploded, exposing the population of the northeast of the country to high levels of radiation and increasing the cases of newborns with deformities. The Romanian Communist Party strongly condemned both women who had abortions and children born with deformities. They were placed in special centers where they were allowed to die, and their parents did not have the right to see or care for them. Irina, played by Isabela Neamțu, is the mirror image of a woman who had to face this moral dilemma – to have an abortion and risk imprisonment.