It is a massive facility, with antennas that are supposedly onehundredfifty meters high and fivehundred meters long and weighing fourteenthousand tons. Sundance film festival 2015 grand jury prize world cinema documentary won innovative filmmaking on a bold scale, centered on a hertzogian main character. United kingdom box office for the russian woodpecker 2015. A thrilling investigation into the ghosts of the soviet union and the mind of an irradiated ukrainian artist on a quest to discover the criminal behind the chernobyl nuclear disaster. The russian woodpecker official trailer hd filmbuff. The russian woodpecker isnt just about history however. Gracia says that he considers the movie one about the ghosts.
November 27, 2015 the payoff for more confounding moments in the film are staunch ideals that reveal themselves in little throwaway moments amid chaos. Financial analysis of the russian woodpecker 2015 at the united kingdom box office, including earnings and profitability. Director chad gracia follows the unforgettably eccentric artist fedor alexandrovich, who reveals to the world an enormous secret soviet weapon that stands in the shadow of chernobyl, which kremlinologists in the 1980s thought might be a. The system operated from july 1976 to december 1989. The russian woodpecker paranoia and prophecy from a chernobyl soothsayer 4 5 stars 4 out of 5 stars. His most recent film, the karma killings, about the nithari serial. The russian woodpecker not an avian at all, the russian woodpecker was the vast, faceless and distant enemy of most of the users of shortwave radio in the western world for eight or nine years, beginning in 1976. The woodpecker signal has now started again after 25 years of silence. Bathe in the snark, talking to airplanes, ships, each other and all of a. If the conspiracy suggested by chad gracias sundance prizewinning documentary, the russian woodpecker, turns out to indeed be true, it will have uncovered one of the most shockingly insidious genocides in human history. In a world in which some ruling states are armed and organised goliaths willing to kill those that protest about them, the russian woodpeckers heartfelt rebelliousness is a treasure for any. As his country is gripped by revolution and war, a ukrainian victim of the chernobyl nuclear disaster discovers a dark secret and must decide whether to risk his life and play his part in the revolution by revealing it.
The russian woodpecker 2015 the movie database tmdb. He returns to what is now a ghost town with radiation readings 10 times higher than normal to visit the gigantic duga 3 radar. The russian woodpecker 2015 online subtitrat in romana. The russian woodpecker is a 2015 documentary film written, produced and directed by chad gracia following fedor alexandrovichs investigation into the chernobyl disaster. The film premiered in the world cinema documentary competition at 2015 sundance film festival on 24 january 2015 and won the world cinema documentary. The russian woodpecker 2015 stream and watch online.
Because that one hasnt been released on home media yet. The russian woodpecker is a production of graciafilms, roast beef productions, and rattapallax. The russian woodpecker 2015, directed by chad gracia. The film premiered in the world cinema documentary competition at 2015 sundance film festival on 24 january 2015 and won the world cinema documentary grand jury prize at the festival.
As his country is gripped by revolution and war, a ukrainian victim of the chernobyl nuclear disaster discovers a dark secret and. The film includes interviews with the commander of the duga, vladimir musiets, as well as the vicecommander, the head of the data center, and others involved in. The russian woodpecker is a thrilling, awardwinning investigation into whether the chernobyl nuclear meltdown was an inside job. And the best things are necessarily made by the best people. With andrei alexandrovich, fedor alexandrovich, igor alexandrovich, natalia barabovskaya. In a documentary unlike any other at sundance, chad gracia follows. The russian woodpecker official movie trailer 2015 hd. Majorkong, once the russian woodpecker was established to been oth radar many short wave loggers lost interest in it. The russian woodpecker is the story of two countries that may have divided but who are still linked through their politics, exports and the ghosts that still wander the contaminated grounds. Starting with a sundance grand jury award for world documentary, the russian woodpecker has gone on to win various prizes around the world. Affected as a boy by the 1986 chernobyl nuclear disaster, ukrainian artist fedor alexandrovich travels to the exclusion zone to pursue his suspicions about the meltdowns link to the duga, a huge. Its known as the russian woodpecker, duga3, chernobyl 2, and codenamed by nato as steel yard or steel works, and is a large radar facility located near chernobyl in ukraine. The duga at chernobyl was the focus of the 2015 documentary film, the russian woodpecker, by chad gracia.
The massive russian radar site in the chernobyl exclusion zone. Awards season begins with the independent spirit awards nominations. Rent the russian woodpecker 2015 on dvd and bluray. Duga nato reporting name steel yard was a soviet overthehorizon oth radar system used as part of the soviet abm earlywarning network. Chad gracia 2015 the eccentric ukrainian artist fedor alexandrovich was just four years old in april 1986, when the nuclear reactor in chernobyl exploded. Not only is the films subject, fedor alexandrovich, wholeheartedly. The russian woodpecker 2015 012015 us documentary, history 1h 20m user score.
Financial analysis of the russian woodpecker 2015 including budget, domestic and international box office gross, dvd and bluray sales reports, total earnings and profitability. When you are in the middle of the chernobyl exclusion zone, and your tour guide asks, with just a hint of guile, if you would like to see the russian woodpecker, you might think that you will. Unforgettably eccentric artist fedor alexandrovich begins his quest by revealing to the world an enormous secret soviet. Gripping conspiracy thriller, pretentious art biopic, timely political documentary the russian woodpecker is all this and more, crammed into 80 minutes. Unforgettably eccentric artist fedor alexandrovich begins his.
The russian woodpecker is only valuable as entertainment, though the absence of any equivalent to the zapruder film or allegedly suspicious nasa photos means theres not much visual interest. The main narrative is bookended by recordings of recent antigovernment protests in kiev, where alexandrovich even takes to the stage in. The title comes from a name that was given to the radar complex. How to watch the russian woodpecker chernobyl reddit.
There were definitely some surprise nominees this year, but that also meant there were some unfortunate snubs as well. Upon reappearing, after going quiet for many years, it has been established that it is not being transmitted from the old original location. The russian woodpecker official movie trailer 2015 hd duration. Folks were going about their electronic business in north america one day july 4, 1976. Watch the trailer for the documentary movie the russian woodpecker written and d. The russian woodpecker appears in justin scotts novel the shipkiller. He was evacuated following the disaster, but the radiation had already permeated his bones.