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Pu-239
The Half Life of Timofey Berezin 18+
Country
USA / Great Britain
Runtime
1 hour 37 minutes
Production year
2006
Online premiere
3 April 2009
World premiere
12 September 2006
MPAA
R
Budget
$5,000,000
Production
HBO Films, Beacon Pictures, Section Eight
Also known as
The Half Life of Timofey Berezin, Pu-239, Plutonio 239 - Pericolo invisibile, Plutónium, Połowiczny rozpad Timofieja Bierezina, Pu-239: To stoiheio tou olethrou, Отнетият живот на Тимофей Берьозин, Плутоний-239, 致命核料
Director
Scott Z. Burns
Cast
Showtimes
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Timofey
[voiceover]
The hands on the clock are waving goodbye. It was my grandfather's watch. The dial was painted by hand in America during Word War I. The brides of soldiers seated at long tables dutifully making luminous little sixes and eights to help keep the world free. The eights were particularly hard to make; so the women sucked on the tips of the paintbrushes to bring them to a fine point. One by one, their mouths began to fill with cancer. The radium-based paint they had swallowed bombarded their brains and bones with alpha and beta particles. The women who painted the watch faces sued the US Radium Corporation of West Orange, New Jersey. Had the trial been at night, the breath they used to say goodbye to the world would have glowed like moonlit fog. They were given ten thousand dollars for their lives.
