Polluting Paradise (2012)

Original title

Müll im Garten Eden

Directed by

Fatih Akin

Genre

documentary film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

Κ

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A German documentary about a Turkish village that became a government garbage dump. The film shows how the waste affects the land and the people living there.

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What happens

Polluting Paradise (German: Der Müll im Garten Eden, also known as Garbage in the Garden of Eden) is a 2012 German documentary film directed by Fatih Akın. The film was screened in the Special Screenings section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. It focuses on the Turkish village of Çamburnu in Sürmene, which has been turned into a rubbish dump by the government. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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