Into Eternity : a Film for the Future

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Originally co- produced in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden as a motion picture/television program and released in 2010.
Includes TV version (58 min.), theatrical version (78 min.) and trailer.
With Michael Madsen, Timo Äikäs, Timo Seppälä, Juhani Vira, Esko Ruokola, Wendla Paile, Mikael Jensen, Berit Lindqvist, Peter Wikberg, Carl Reinhold Bråkenhielm, Sami Savonrinne.
"Into Eternity is the first feature documentary to explore the mind-boggling scientific and philosophical questions long-term nuclear waste storage poses. Structured as a message to future generations, the film focuses on the Onkalo underground waste repository now being built in Finland, one of the first nuclear waste storage facilities. Once the repository is full in about 100 years, it will be closed and sealed 'forever'."--Container.
DVD; NTSC; widescreen 1.78:1; Dolby digital 2.0.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Our Impact on the Far, Far Future submitted by Meginator on August 22, 2022, 10:02am This documentary takes a very philosophically minded approach to the subject of nuclear waste disposal, for both better and worse. Michael Madsen uses Finland’s Onkalo repository (deep underground and still under construction at the time of filming) as a visual and theoretical anchor, which gives the film both an additional air of gravity and a useful technical focus. Several times, Madsen directly addresses a far future viewer, asking them if we in our present time have done enough to ensure that our radioactive waste remains undisturbed and safely ensconced within the deep Scandinavian bedrock. A slate of technical experts provide some background information both on the various dangers posed by radiation and on the challenges of communicating with theoretical humans a hundred thousand years in the future about the site, but the film’s loose structure means that anyone without some preexisting knowledge of the subject is liable to get a bit lost. The documentary has an interesting approach to an intriguing subject that isn’t always successful, and I’d only recommend it to anyone who is already somewhat aware of the topic and eager to think more deeply about it.