Meltdown

Hildegarde Duane | USA | 1982 | 1' |

| IFFR 2019

The end of the world does not have to be all doom and gloom. Hildegarde Duane finds the humorous side of a nuclear meltdown in this video where two people embrace in the knowledge of certain death. What better way to spend the final minute before the apocalypse? (LUX)

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