International Uranium Film Festival

Film Program

6 pm - THE MAN WHO SAVED THE WORLD

Denmark, 2014, Director Peter Anthony, Producer Jakob Staberg, Statement Film, Co-production: WG Film, Executive Producer Stephen McEveety, DocuDrama with Kevin Costner, Robert De Niro, Matt Damon, Stanislav Petrov, Sergey Shnyryov, 105 min. Russian, English.

1983. The Cold War is seconds from exploding. The world holds its breath as the superpowers USA and Russia are arming themselves against each other with thousands of nuclear missiles. On the 26th of September, Russian radars intercept five nuclear missiles on their way to Russia. Stanislav Petrov is commander-in-chief. The decision that would start World War III rests on his shoulders. Should Russia fire nuclear missiles at the United States in defense? 'The Man Who Saved the World' is an epic Cold War thriller that sends shivers down your spine, while also being a gripping story about the man who actually saved the world, and his struggle to get his life back on track before it is too late. “I often get the chance to play a hero. But Stanislav is a true real-life hero.” Kevin Costner Kevin Costner’s appearance in The Man Who Saved the World closed a circle that he himself had instigated. While researching for his role in the 1987 film No Way Out, he came across Petrov’s story on an episode of NBC’s Dateline. This was around the time he was shooting „Thirteen Days“, a film based on the Cuban missile crisis, which brought the U.S. to the brink of war in an earlier doomsday scenario. “The Man who Saved the World“ won several international awards and in 2016 the Best Docudrama Award of the International Uranium Film Festival.

8:15 - DEADLY DECEPTION: GENERAL ELECTRIC, NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND OUR ENVIRONMENT

USA, 1991, Director Debra Chasnoff, Producer: Groundspark in cooperation with Corporate Accountability International. Documentary, 29 min.

This 1991 Academy Award®-winning documentary uncovers the disastrous health and environmental side effects caused by the production of nuclear materials by the General Electric Corporation. The film juxtaposes GE's rosy "We Bring Good Things to Life" commercials with the true stories of people whose lives were devastated by the company's involvement in testing and making nuclear weapons. Driven by intensely personal testimony and painstaking research, Deadly Deception exposes what GE never wanted its customers to know: a shocking pattern of negligence and misinformation spanning several decades. The film portrayed the lives of GE employees and residents living near GE’s plants who suffered from cancer-related death and disease. It also documented the organization’s GE Boycott and Nuclear Weaponmakers Campaign, a grassroots movement that helped compel GE to get out of the nuclear

weapons business. The hard-hitting documentary film released by Corporate Accountability International won an Academy Award in 1992 for Best Documentary: Short Subject. A year after the film won the Oscar, GE got out of the nuclear weapons business altogether, removing a powerful influence in policy-making. Documentary filmmaker Debra Chasnoff, who made history when she publicly thanked her female then-partner from the stage at the Academy Awards in 1992, died November 2017 of metastatic breast cancer.

More info: https://groundspark.org/deadlydeception and https://corporateaccountability.org/blog/oscar-winning-documentary-exposes-ge/