1986 POST CHERNOBYL DISASTER BELLORUSSIAN DOCUMENTARY FILM RETURN TO EXCLUSION ZONE XD14564

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films Visit Visit our website Produced just two years after the Chernobyl disaster by Belarusfilm and Goskino and with the assistance of the Belorussian Institute of Radiobiology, this film After the Battle focuses on the lives of Belorussian villagers who were forced from their homes as a result of the accident, and who decided to return to them. The film was one of the first shot inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, and the interviews in it show the gaping void in scientific understanding that existed among a certain strata of the populace, and the scientific community. At the same time, the film shows how the bureaucracy attempted to deal with the postdisaster situation, and how it failed in many ways. The story is told through a series of interviews with villagers, bureaucrats, and researchers in radiology and biology including Dr. Igor Vladimirovich Kazakov. The Belorussian Institute of