Films by Thomas Balkenhol

Germany 2010, 115 min
by Christoph Boekel

My loved ones in Moscow, fifteen years ago and today - seven people close to me, whom I accompanied with a camera, first throughout 1993 and then in 2008/2009. During the span of these fifteen years, Moscow underwent tremendous change, transformed by almost incomprehensible social and economic upheaval. It was important to me to view and portray the fates of my Moscow relatives and friends in the context of political developments. What has become of their lives and loves, their dreams and hopes,

Germany 2006
by Christoph Boekel

April 26th 1986. The day a nightmare scenario became horrific reality: the day reactor block 4 of the Chernobyl atomic power station exploded. The early summer heat, insufficient security measures and lack of knowledge and training exposed the emergency workers to extreme risk. One of them was the young artist Dmitrij Gutin. During the last days of his military service he was posted to the highly contaminated 30 km. zone around Chernobyl. He died just short of his 40th birthday, after many painf