Expired

Story about Svema, former chemical plant (located in Schostka, Ukraine) which was founded in 1931. People playing in the film used to work at Svema. Now they come back to the abandoned space that was their everyday environment. Svema was the first plant in Europe that started to produce black-and-white photographic film, photographic paper and black-and-white /colour cine film, X-ray film and audiotapes. The area of Svema housed 400 buildings, and it employed 15 thousand people (the whole population of Schostka was 100 thousand).Most of soviet films were shot on Svema film, which became a synonym for a specific faded picture quality. After the collapse of Soviet Union and the arrival of Ukrainian independence the film industry in Ukraine was ruined. The plant”s production slowed down through 1990s and ceased entirely in 2000. Svema shut down completely in 2006, having served only as a district heating sourse for Schostka.