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Little Aidana is eight years old. She was born with two heads in the most radioactive region on Earth: Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan. For a half-century, until 1991, this region was the hub of Soviet atomic tests—one of the most shameful episodes in the history of the Cold War. The power of the nuclear and thermonuclear bombs dropped on this area in the heart of Asia was 2,800 times greater than that dropped on Hiroshima. By filming young Aidana, Bruno Mobrici shatters the wall of silence the former Soviet Union erected around this abominable crime against a helpless, innocent civilian population, and an ecological disaster whose proportions still remain difficult to assess. The epidemiological data cannot be contested: 70,000 dead, not to mention the more than 300,000 people showing signs of serious genetic malformations due to radiation that still effect the third generation of Kazakhs. Even if the government in Moscow has erased all traces of its activities, the survivors show us underground galleries from which the intensity of the explosions were gauged, and where their consequences on the local population were studied.

Italy - 2004 - 53 mn - Betacam SP - Colour

Director Bruno Mobrici Writer Bruno Mobrici Camera Giuseppe Belviso Editing Angelo Tocci

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