‘Nuclear power, no thanks!’ – ’Nuclear power, yes please!’ This fundamental question is posed by Brazilian-Ukranian co-directotrs, Joāo Pedro Prado and Anton Yaremchuk in their graduate film from the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Spaltung, about the controversial nuclear debate in Germany and neighbouring Poland.
At the same time as one of Germany’s last nuclear power plants was decommissioned in the Bavarian-Swabian town of Gundremmingen, the first nuclear power plant in Poland is to be built in the Baltic Sea town of Choczewo. With a light-hearted touch, the directors take an incisive and informative look at the people who have lived for decades in the shadow of a nuclear plant in Germany as well as those proponents of a new plant in Poland. It is a topic that divides not only atoms, but also society.
