Camouflaged as a political suspense documentary, Plutonium demonstrates the theft of highly enriched nuclear material from a Third World Country nuclear power plant - enough for five bombs of the Hiroshima type. Is this material now in the hands of terrorists – or in the possession of a brutal and inhuman dictatorship?
Direction
Erler's deadpan fake-doc style fooled actual experts.
Writing
Technical jargon so authentic you'll Google the cast.
Acting
Charlotte Kerr's journalist feels uncomfortably real.
Director
Rainer Erler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Erler used real nuclear engineers as consultants and shot at an actual power plant, which probably explains why some countries banned it.
Released during the peak of German RAF paranoia, it blurred fiction and reality so aggressively that TV stations added disclaimers—sometimes after airing.
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