Sundance 2015: Chernobyl Conspiracy Doc THE RUSSIAN WOODPECKER Gets a Poster

The first post has been released for Chad Gracia‘s documentary The Russian Woodpecker, which just had its world premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. This immensely intriguing film follows a Russian artist who believes there to be a nefarious conspiracy behind the infamous Chernobyl disaster of the ’80s. This is one I can’t wait to check out.

Here’s the newly released poster, followed by the synopsis:

Fedor Alexandrovich is a radioactive man. He was four years old in 1986, when he was exposed to the toxic effects of the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown and forced to leave his home. Now 33, he is an artist in Ukraine, with radioactive strontium in his bones and a singular obsession with the earth-changing catastrophe – why did it actually happen? Was there more to the story than the Soviet government let on? And, most importantly, what did this all have to do with the giant, mysterious steel pyramid now rotting away 2 miles from the disaster site:  a hulking Cold War weapon known as the Duga and nicknamed “the Russian Woodpecker” for the strange, constant clicking radio frequencies that it emits? In Chad Gracia’s documentary/conspiracy thriller (from the produers of PUSSY RIOT and THE SQUARE), Alexandrovich returns to the ghost towns in the radioactive Exclusion Zone to try to find answers – and to decide whether to risk his life by revealing them, amid growing clouds of Ukraine’s emerging revolution and war.