Pu 239 (film)

Pu239 is a 2006 film directed by Hollywood producer Scott Z. Burns based on the book PU239 and Other Russian Fantasies written by Ken Kalfus. The film was shown twice at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival under the title The Half Life of Timofey Berezin, before being distributed by HBO Films under its original working title. Pu239 is the chemical symbol for plutonium239 239Pu, a radioactive isotope of the chemical element plutonium.

Before Timofeys adoring wife, Marina Radha Mitchell, is fully aware of his fate, he leaves for Moscow, on a mission to secure a better future for her and their young son. He hooks up with a smalltime gangster, Shiv Oscar Isaac, in hopes of finding a buyer for a selfmade canister of a little over 100 grams of weaponsgrade plutonium salt he has stolen. It is 1995, only a few years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and they spend their time hurtling through the hotels, nightclubs and private palaces of the new Moscow underworld, ricocheting between two rival crime lords Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Steven Berkoff. However, what Timofey and Shiv never realize is that they are both caught in the same vise trying to find a way free of a certain fate hoping to do right by their loved ones before it is too late.

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