Stardust​

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Through the eyes of a filmmaker, we embark on a daring road trip through a country that lies somewhere between the Wild West and the disintegrated Soviet Union. Always on the trail of rocket parts and other unique fragments from an era when nuclear weapons were still detonated in the open air, the film repeatedly encounters unique characters.

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Sergei, who lives in the dense forest of the Altai Mountains, shares stories of collecting rocket debris in the 1990s and selling it as scrap. Yerlan, a nuclear weapons expert, takes us to meet fishermen who cast their lines into radioactive craters. And Batyrbai, a horse herder, pauses mid-slaughter to reveal that he knows where rocket parts remain hidden.

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The film portrays the status quo of a population caught between rocket debris that poisons their livestock and destroys the ozone layer, a former nuclear test site that will remain uninhabitable for generations, and a capital city that soaks up the country's wealth like a sponge.

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2025 - 90min​​