Leonids story

Rainer Ludwigs, 2012

19 min Short, drama

Audiovisual translation, subtitling

EN – ES

The Barcelona Human Rights Film Festival commissioned me for this project. I translated and reviewed the original script from English into Spanish.

A Soviet family in search for a humble paradise is dragged into a huge disaster. This magical animated film combines drawing, photography and documentary video to capture the surreal emotions of a too real tragedy: Chernobyl 1986. Leonids grew up in the village next to the reactor. The catastrophe broke his life, ruined his health and threatened his unborn son. However, his work takes him directly to the contaminated area. This animated film tells his story.