Joachim Tschirner

Germany | 2010/2014 | 35 min (Short version) | Documentary Director: Joachim Tschirner Original Language: English Web site: www.umweltfilm.de This new short version of the feature documentary "Yellow Cake. The dirt behind Uranium" focuses on a secret uranium mine in East Germany, that produced for decades yelllow cake for the Sovjet Union's atomic bombs. It was the third largest uranium mine in the world, located in the provinces of Saxony and Thuringia. Operating until the Reunification, it had the code name WISMUT - German for bismuth. The film tells the history of the Wismut and accompanies for several years the first clean-up operation in the history of uranium mining. Film website: www.yellowcake-derfilm.de Awards:...