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The Babushkas of Chernobyl / a PowderKeg Studios production in association with Hedgebrook, Chicken & Egg Pictures, Fork Films ; produced and directed by Holly Morris, Anne Bogart ; written by Holly Morris.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Ukrainian
- Subjects (All):
- Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986.
- Nuclear accidents--Ukraine--Chornobylʹ.
- Nuclear accidents.
- Older womenUkraine--Chornobylʹ.
- Older womenUkraine.
- Ukraine--Chornobylʹ.
- Ukraine.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Feature films.
- Internet videos.
- Streaming video.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (53 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, CA : Video Project, 2015.
- Language Note:
- In English and Ukrainian with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- The Babushkas of Chernobyl journeys into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone several decades after the world's worst nuclear disaster in April 1986. The tightly regulated 1000 square mile Dead Zone remains one of the most radioactively contaminated places on Earth complete with military border guards. Surprisingly, a defiant spirited group of elderly women scratches out an existence in this lethal landscape. The resilient babushkas are the last survivors of a small community who refused to leave their ancestral homes after the Chernobyl disaster. The film follows the women for over a year, capturing their unusual lives in the Dead Zone as well as other extraordinary scenes -- from radiation spikes just a few feet from the nuclear reactor, to a group of thrill-seekers called 'Stalkers' who sneak into the Zone illegally to pursue post-apocalyptic video game-inspired fantasies. Scientists in the area describe the extent of contamination in the Exclusion Zone and the continuing danger of radiation poisoning. Journalist Mary Mycio author of Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl, studies the long-term impacts on humans animals and plants. A visit to the reactor itself shows a containment sarcophagus under construction which will need to last longer than the pyramids in Egypt to prevent further radiation releases. While the babushkas' spirit mirrors the determination of the Ukrainian nation â€" a country that continues to survive despite its ongoing conflict with Russia - it remains unlikely Chernobyl will be repopulated anytime in the foreseeable future.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed March 03, 2017).
- Won 2016 Florida Film Festival Audience Award, Best Documentary Feature
- Won 2015 Los Angeles Film Festival Special Mention, Documentary
- OCLC:
- 986360614
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