‘Rebirth Island’: Cold War Spy Thriller From ‘Balaban’ Director Wraps Production, Heads To EFM
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Writer-director Aysulu Onaran (Balaban) has wrapped principal photography on her latest feature film, Rebirth Island.
The film is a historical spy thriller based on true events from the Cold War. Executive producers on the pic are Rose Ganguzza (Fatima) and Adilet Yessimov (Balaban).
The film was shot on location in Kazakhstan. Onaran will present the project to buyers at EFM. The film’s synopsis reads: It’s summer 1992, a month before the collapse of the Soviet empire.
A military scientist, Colonel Dautov, serves at the top-secret laboratory on Rebirth Island. The Colonel’s beliefs and military oath are challenged when he rescues an imprisoned woman from the laboratory and helps a CIA agent to find the secret burial ground of 200 tons of the bioweapon Anthrax-836 to avert the biological apocalypse.
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