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Am Rande. Sechs Kapitel über AIDS in der Ukraine (On the Edge. Six Episodes on AIDS in Ukraine)
Film
Title of the film
Original title:
Am Rande. Sechs Kapitel über AIDS in der Ukraine
English title:
On the Edge. Six Episodes on AIDS in Ukraine
Hungarian title:
Borotvaélen - Hat epizód az ukrajnai AIDS-helyzetről
Production and shooting info
Country of the production:
Germany - de
Year of production:
2006
Year of shooting:
2006
Length of the film:
105 min
Colouring:
colour
Recording format:
DV
Original language:
Russian
German
English
Language of subtitle:
German
English
Russian
Description of the content
Ukraine is suffers the highest AIDS rate in Europe, "On the Edge. Six Episodes on AIDS in Ukraine" offers an analysis of the social causes of the epidemic as well as its social consequences. The film shows the lives of drug users, who constitute about one per cent of the total population. It also shows the production of drugs, the drug trade and the related corruption. We visit destroyed families, in which a whole generation past away because of AIDS due to drug abuse. Those who remain are infants and the elderly. The film shows orphans and children in the TB hospital, as well as the lack of physicians that work on poverty-related diseases. The film focuses on the dismal conditions in the labour camps, where approximately 200,000 people live, a high number of them get infected with HIV – through sharing syringes or experiencing sexual violence. Even in the most atrocious places where one would least expect, there are people who are trying to do something to improve these terrible conditions. It turns out that in almost all cases the people concerned are women.
Credits
Director:
Karsten Hein
Music composer:
Claudia Fierke
Producer:
Karsten Hein
Cinematographer:
Detlef Fluch
Thomas Walther
Andreas Gockel
Editor:
Detlef Fluch
Sound:
Thomas Walther
Közreműködő:
Patrick Blume
Company / Institution
Production:
Karsten Hein Filmproduktion
Ethnicity and locality
Etnic group:
Russian
Ukrainian
Continent:
East Europe
Country:
Ukraine - ua
Location
(City, village, region, mountains, etc.):
Kiev
Donetsk
Gurlovka
Torez
Poltava
Tipology
Type:
non-fiction film
Form:
documentary film
Beszédmód:
tényfeltáró
Related sciences
Natural science:
medicine
Social science:
addiktológia
Keyword:
drog
young people
way of living
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