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- This isn’t fact-based (thank God) but adapted from a short story by author Ken Kalfus about one man’s nightmare brush with an unstable Russian nuclear infrastructure and the fateful choice he makes to try to provide for his family after he’s gone.
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Pu-239 is a 2006 British drama film written and directed by Hollywood producer Scott Z. Burns in his feature directorial debut, which was based on the book PU-239 and Other Russian Fantasies written by Ken Kalfus.
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Nov 17, 2007 · 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. Director. Scott Z. Burns. Writers. Scott Z. Burns. Ken Kalfus.
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- Scott Z. Burns
- 2007-11-17
Based on a short story by Ken Kalfus, PU-239 is about a man who worked all of his adult life in a nuclear processing facility, only to find himself contaminated beyond hope of survival because the plant is literally falling apart.
HBO’s new feature movie PU-239 is based on a short story by Ken Kalfus, whose dark comedy A Disorder Peculiar to our Country was one of my favorite novels of 2006.
Nov 16, 2007 · The film -- its title refers to Plutonium-239, an isotope used in the making of nuclear weapons -- tells the story of Timofey Berezin (Considine), a worker who receives a lethal dose of radiation while trying to avert a disaster at a deteriorating nuclear facility in Russia.
Nov 17, 2007 · Exposed to weapons-grade plutonium — Pu-239 — in the deteriorating nuclear plant where he has worked, Timofey (Paddy Considine) becomes a scapegoat for the inefficiencies that have led to his...
Nov 27, 2007 · Now comes Pu-239, a moody drama written by Scott Burns ( The Bourne Conspiracy) and produced by George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh. The central figure in Pu-239 is Timofey, an employee at a decaying Russian nuclear facility.
