2004: 80 min documentary about French Nuclear Testing in the Pacific 1966-96,
digibeta
BBC, Arte, ZDF, SBS
“4/5” - Financial Times
“fascinating sometimes horrifying” – Sunday Times
“salutary tale” – Time Out
Environmental Award at the Grenoble Nature and Environment Film Festival 2006

SELECTED CLIPS FROM THE FILM:

Introduction to Blowing Up Paradise

Nuclear Test, Moruroa, French Polynesia, 1966

Greenpeace sail a protest boat into the testzone, 1973

The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior 1985 - French incompetence, French guilt

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Filming in the Pacific - Frank-Peter Lehmann

Rainbow over the Capital of Tahiti, ‘Papeete’

Building an Underground Bomb

PRESS REVIEWS:

Guardian, Vol. 41 No. 4
Press Article about United Nations Association Film Festival, October 2006
JPEG 264 KB

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Metro Life, ‘Paradise Lost’, March 2005
JPEG, 340 KB

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Press Release on BLOWING UP PARADISE, June 2005
Word, 676 KB:

blowing-up-press-rel-copy-for-internet.doc