Pu-239 (2006)

Directed by

Scott Z. Burns

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

R

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 76 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A worker at a Russian nuclear facility is exposed to radiation and seeks to provide for his family before he dies. He tries to sell a sample of plutonium on the black market in Moscow.

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What happens

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. 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 (239Pu), the most readily fissile isotope of the element plutonium. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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