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Oxygen Station

2025-04-10 uk 106m
Drama
The film is based on the biographical events of the Crimeans' leader, human rights activist, Soviet political prisoner and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Mustafa Jemilev. Summer of 1980. Mustafa Jemilev spends a four-year exile in Yakut village Zyryanka, where he works at an oxygen station. Every day he fills rusty tanks with oxygen and rolls them to the dock. This monotonous and exhausting work makes him resembled to the mythological Sisyphus. The events happen after 300-days hunger strike, which made him known all around the globe.

Director

Ivan Tymchenko

Sound

Jun Miyake

Cinematography

Thomas Stokowski

Screenplay

Mykhaylo Brynykh

Visual Effects Supervisor

Michal Křeček

exile crimea political prisoner oxygen tank monotonous monotonous work

Status

Released

Budget

$880,798

Countries

  • Czech Republic
  • Slovakia
  • Sweden
  • Ukraine

Companies

  • Silk Films

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