Pripyat (1999)

An astonishing and haunting documentary by Nikolaus Geyrhalter (Our Daily Bread and 7915 KM). which looks at life in the town of Pripyat 12 years after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe, referred to by its residents simply as “the accident”.
Geyrhalter creates a moving portrait of the everyday life of people who still live and work in “the zone”, the 30 km area around the Chernobyl plant where 116,000 residents were evacuated.