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Pu-239: Directed by Scott Z. Burns. With Paddy Considine, Oscar Isaac, Valeriu Pavel Dan, Kenneth Bryans. A worker at a Russian nuclear facility gets exposed to a lethal dose of radiation.
The film was shown twice at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival under the title The Half Life of Timofey Berezin before being distributed by HBO Films under its original working title. Pu-239 is the chemical symbol for plutonium-239 (239 Pu), the most readily fissile isotope of the element plutonium.
"Pu-239", or "The Half Life of Timofey Berezin" is a film set in post cold war Russia. A land ruled by competing Russian Mafia factions and run by aging, failing nuclear power plants. Timofey Berezin, a nuclear power plant technician finds himself exposed to an excessive amount of radiation caused from a near failure at the plant he works at.
Dying from radiation poisoning, a man (Paddy Considine) gets mixed up in a plutonium scheme with a small-time criminal (Oscar Isaac). Watch The Half Life of Timofey Berezin with a...
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Directed by Scott Z. Burns. His family’s future depends on one unstable element. A worker at a Russian nuclear facility gets exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. In order to provide for his family, he steals some plutonium and sets out to sell it on Moscow’s black market with the help of an incompetent criminal. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres.
Pu-239 is a 2006 film directed by Hollywood producer Scott Z. Burns based on the book PU-239 and Other Russian Fantasies written by Ken Kalfus. The film was shown twice at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival under the title The Half Life of Timofey Berezin, before being distributed by HBO Films under its original working title.
Dec 17, 2008 · A worker at a Russian nuclear facility gets exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. In order to provide for his family, he steals some plutonium and sets out to sell it on Moscow’s black market with the help of an incompetent criminal.
It's a quirky mix of incompetent bureaucrats and small time gangsters trying to carve a life in the new Russia. Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jun 21, 2007
Sep 12, 2006 · In Moscow he meets Shiv, a horribly inept gangster completely unsuited for the criminal life, who has landed in deep trouble with his boss Tusk (Nicholaj Lie Kaas) when his extortion tactics hit...
Nuclear plant worker Timofey Berezin (Considine) is dosed with a lethal amount of radiation and becomes the victim of an administrative coverup. To provide for his family, Timofey steals a tube of plutonium and turns to smalltime Moscow gangster Shiv (Isaac) to help him sell it on the black market.
