LIVING TOXIC

This documentary takes us into one of the most infernal places in the world, where even breathing can be lethal. In this on-the-road investigation they will reveal to us the unknown “behind-the-scenes” of one of the most dramatic environmental disasters ever occured.

We are in the region of Chelyabinsk, south-east of Russia, on the borderline with Kazakhstan, which has always been used as the Soviet “nuclear dumpster”. An area affected by acid rains caused by the strong concentration of polluting elements, such as dioxin and various chemical materials, by far exceeding those identified up to now in Chernobyl and Fukushima.

From the abandoned villages to the treatment zones, such as the Chelyabinsk sanatorium and the Muslyumovo hospital, the protagonists passed through those infernal lands together with Nadezhda Kutepova, Lawyer and President of NGO “The Planet of Hopes”. They collected the touching testimonies of inhabitants and interview researchers and experts, spotlighting situations of extreme degrade, too often neglected by governments and mass media.