SPALTUNG

Germany 2025 - Director: João Pedro Prado - Co-director: Anton Yaremchuk - Original language: German, English, Polish - Subtitles: English - Length: 74 min.

Sheet cake, oilcloth tablecloth, filter coffee. An elderly couple sits comfortably on the terrace. Directly behind the house, a huge nuclear reactor towers into the sky. The man turns around: "Funny habit! Now I don't know where the wind comes from since the thing stopped steaming." This sets the theme of the film. SPALTUNG observes people in the southern German community of Gundremmingen, which was long associated with the now decommissioned nuclear power plant, and in the Polish Baltic town of Choczewo, where the country's first nuclear power plant is due to be built by 2033. He takes us on a humorous journey into the realm of nuclear energy, in which humanity's divided relationship to nuclear power generation becomes visible. Ina Borrmann