Oxygen Station
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Overview
1980, USSR. Crimean Tatar rights activist and political prisoner Mustafa Jemilev is exiled to the settlement Zyryanka in Siberia, where he must work at the oxygen station. Three people are headed toward him across the huge country with vastly different goals—to meet, destroy, and protect.
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Review
Year 1980 in the former Soviet Union, Mustafa Dzhemilev, a Crimean Tatar human rights activist is wrongfully convicted. He goes on a hunger strike for 303 days in his cell, which makes him known to the world. The village of Zyryanka, Siberia, where he worked to fill oxygen tanks for welding purposes was where the Soviet Union forcibly relocated the Tartar people including Mustafa in 1944. He grew up here to become a human rights activist. Prosecutor Shaladin who learns about Mustafa due to another political incident sees Mustafa as an enemy of the state and leaves for Zyryanka to eliminate him. Coincidentally, a reporter gets murdered in the area, and KGB tries to frame Mustafa. Meanwhile, a Tatar woman named Safinar abandons her family and sets off on a long journey to meet their hero, Mustafa. This film is based on the true story of the Tatar people who were oppressed and discriminated against as political prisoners and couldn't return to their hometown during the era of Soviet power. It reminds us of the ongoing atrocious acts of Russia. (CHUN Jinsu)
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Credit
- DirectorIvan TYMCHENKO
- ProducerSvitlana SOLOVIOVA, Alzbeta JANACKOVA, Peter KRUPENIN
- ScreenplayMykhailo BRYNYKH
- CinematographyThomas STOKOWSKI
- GafferRostyslav HOLOVKO
- Production DesignOksana MASNIUK
- MusicJun MIYAKE
- EditorKarolina MACIEJEWSKA, Ivan BANNIKOV
- SoundKrystof BLABLA, Vasyl YAVTUSHENKO
- CastBorys ORLOV, Khrystyna DEILYK, Viktor POLTORATSKYI
Film Source
Digital Platform / Svitlofor Film⎜svetasolovyova@gmail.com
Director
Ivan TYMCHENKO
Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, 1979. His debut feature Beshoot (2019) was released in Ukraine and internationally, particularly in Korea.
