2012 | Russia | Fiction

Atomic Ivan (Atomny Ivan)

  • Russian English 91 mins
  • Director | Vasily Barkhatov
  • Writer | Maksim Kurochkin
  • Producer | Elena Glikman, Sergey Novikov, Yaroslav Zhivov

STATUS: Released

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This is a new version of the eternal love story of two so similar and yet so different young people. This is the first time a romantic and tender story unfolds within a real nuclear power plant. Never before have filmmakers been at the heart of the nuclear industry! What happened? A bold, theatrical, ATOMIC cinema experiment! The romantic comedy “Atomic Ivan” is the debut film of famous theatre director Vasiliy Barkhatov from Moscow. The film - based on the script of world-known playwright Maxim Kurochkin - is the world’s first ever movie shot with real actors in nuclear power plants. The Shooting of the film took place at the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant, about 200 km North West of Moscow, and at the Leningrad Power Plant 70 km close to St Petersburg. The story takes place in the town where the nuclear engineer may live in one apartment with his mother, the nuclear engineer and his grand-mother – the pioneer of nuclear industry.

romantic comedy nuclear power plant Nuclear Power Plant experimental filmmaking young love emotional exploration
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