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The Babushkas of Chernobyl, 72 min

The Babushkas of Chernobyl, 72 min. Feature

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Number	TC hr:min:sec:fr	VIDEO	DIALOGUE [ENGLISH] NO SUBTITLES	SUBTITLES / LOWER THIRDS / SUPER
1	00:00:04:10	Valentyna in her garden, about to go fishing		Babushka is going fishing.
2	00:00:07:09			Let’s sit down, friends, before we hit the long road.
3	00:00:13:21			Fishing rods. We’ll take the basic ones.
4	00:00:18:03			Today, after the rain
5	00:00:20:18			there won’t be many fish
6	00:00:24:05			but still
7	00:00:27:07			off I go.
8	00:00:28:23			Off you go, Valentyna Ivanivna. Fishing.
9	00:00:34:07			This way.
10	00:00:36:00			Fishing.
11	00:00:42:01	Valentyna on the field walking.		[lower third] Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Ukraine
12	00:00:54:18			[SINGING] A flock of birds...
13	00:00:58:15			is flying sad
14	00:01:01:19			and only one is happy.
15	00:01:04:10			Just one little...
16	00:01:06:21			silly crane.
17	00:01:13:21	Valentyna fishing		The Exclusion Zone is not a prison.
18	00:01:20:10			In Kiev I’d have died long ago,
19	00:01:22:17			five times over.
20	00:01:26:12			The air there is probably worse than it is here.
21	00:01:31:14			Every car releases the whole periodic table into the air
22	00:01:35:00			and you inhale that into your lungs.
23	00:01:38:11			Nutrition.
24	00:01:39:23			You eat all sorts of chemicals.
25	00:01:43:12			That’s not healthy, that’s not good.
26	00:01:49:12			Here in the Exclusion Zone,
27	00:01:51:17			life never stopped, nature just took over.
28	00:01:56:12			The river flows just like before.
29	00:01:59:13			The fish live here just like before
30	00:02:08:07			I won’t go anywhere even at gunpoint.
31	00:02:15:06	Archival footage of the accident		[SUPER] APRIL 1986
32	00:02:17:17			An accident has occured
33	00:02:19:21			At the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
34	00:02:21:15			One of the reactors has been damaged.
35	00:02:24:00	Newsreader		The situation is being dealt with.
36	00:02:26:00			Aid is being given to those affected.
37	00:02:28:06			The government has formed a commission of inquiry.
38	00:02:32:15	Archival Footage of reactor		[SUPER] On April 26, 1986, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Reactor No.4 exploded
39	00:02:37:13	Archival footage of evacuation		[SUPER] The resulting fire lasted 10 days, releasing 400 times as much radiation as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
40	00:02:44:14	Archival Footage of reactor		[SUPER] Hundreds of thousands of residents were forcibly evacuated.
41	00:03:08:21	Archival footage of fence being built		[SUPER] A 2,600 square kilometer radioactive ''Exclusion Zone'' was declared uninhabitable.
42	00:03:15:12	Archival footage of fence being built		[SUPER] Evacuees were told they could never return.
43	00:03:21:06			[TITLE CARD] THE BABUSHKAS OF CHERNOBYL
44	00:03:36:01	Exclusion Zone border		[SUPER] Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Border Ukraine
45	00:03:41:16	Vita Polyakova at the Security checkpoint, entrance to the Zone.	My name is Vita Polyakova. I work as a guide for the government body who is responsible for all the visits in the Exclusion Zone.
46	00:03:41:23			[LOWER THIRD] Vita Polyakova
48	00:03:50:06	Security checkpoint, entrance to the Zone		The Exclusion Zone is a regime area of strict control
49	00:03:53:15			provided by the Minister of Emergencies.
50	00:04:04:04	Driving through abandoned villages.		The Exclusion Zone is officially deserted.
51	00:04:07:13			It’s all closed forever.
52	00:04:15:04			Radiation is the invisible danger.
53	00:04:18:19			So, no smoking, no eating outside
54	00:04:22:04			because of the concentration of radioactive dust in the air.
55	00:04:25:07			It goes inside your intestines.
56	00:04:30:05			Touching any vegetation is forbidden.
57	00:04:34:11			No mushrooms, no berries, no drinking water from open water supplies.
58	00:04:39:09			Please avoid touching any structures.
59	00:04:41:20			A wall can be on the verge of collapse.
60	00:04:47:10	Reactor No 4		[LOWER THIRD] Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Reactor No. 4
61	00:05:01:06	Hanna’s backyard. Cell phone rings		[LOWER THIRD] Kupovate Village Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
62	00:05:07:21	Hannah on phone		Hello?
63	00:05:10:13			What?
64	00:05:12:17			You can’t hear me?
65	00:05:15:00			Let me move.
66	00:05:18:02			Can you hear me now?
67	00:05:20:00			Can you hear me now?
68	00:05:21:19			[LOWER THIRD] Hanna Zavorotnya
69	00:05:26:05			Just call me tomorrow.
70	00:05:29:01			OK, bye, bye.
71	00:05:31:04			Looks like it’s off. God knows.
72	00:05:34:16	Hanna feeds chickens		Oooh, my chicken.
73	00:05:38:04			First I feed the chickens
74	00:05:43:12			then I feed the pigs
75	00:05:46:19	Hanna goes inside the house. Feeds Sonia.		and then I feed the disabled lady.
76	00:05:50:13			Here’s cake for you, Sonia.
77				My sister has been disabled since childhood.
78	00:06:17:17	Hanna showing family graves		Mother
79	00:06:19:11			uncle
80	00:06:21:07			my granny
81	00:06:23:06			and my grandfather.
82	00:06:26:07			This is my boy.
83	00:06:29:22			He died of appendicitis when he was two.
84	00:06:34:23			He could be coming to visit me from Kiev.
85	00:06:45:22	Hanna plants flowers on a grave		I love my native land and my graves.
86	00:06:56:11	Hanna leaves the cemetery		If I hadn’t come back, I would’ve died by now.
87	00:06:59:13			When people who moved away visit here, they’re like this
88	00:07:04:08			and I’m like this!
89	00:07:07:06			You get it?
90	00:07:08:13			That’s all!
91	00:07:12:18	Hanna and Maria (neighbor) getting ready to go over to Maria S.		I’m bringing some guests. And we’ll go visit Maria.
92	00:07:16:19			They will drive us.
93	00:07:19:07	Babushkas in the car on their way to Maria S.		We should have picked at least some corn flowers for her.
94	00:07:22:03			Oh she’ll get over it!
95	00:07:26:01			[LOWER THIRD] Opachichi Village Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
96	00:07:31:21			[LOWER THIRD] Maria Shovkuta
97	00:07:36:20	Maria S. showing her garden		This is Babushka’s garden!
98	00:07:39:06			This is all mine!
99	00:07:42:04			All mine!
100	00:07:44:10			Here Babushka will plant everything!
101	00:07:46:10			Cucumbers, potatoes, beets
102	00:07:50:21			carrots, onions.
103	00:07:54:02			We’ll work with our hands.
104	00:07:57:20			With the shovel, with hands.
105	00:08:00:15			Potatoes will be here and here.
106	00:08:03:11			I’ll plant potatoes over there.
107	00:08:08:07			Even though I’m so small, I’m very hard-working.
108	00:08:16:22			Now stay out!
109	00:08:23:23	Maria Shovkuta’s backyard. Hanna and Maria 2 come for Easter lunch		Christ is risen!
110	00:08:25:17			Truly, He is risen!
111	00:08:27:18			Happy Easter!
112	00:08:30:00			-Happy Easter! -Christ is risen!
113	00:08:34:19	Outside Maria S.'s house		[SINGING] We drank vodka
114	00:08:38:11			and we’ll be drinking more.
115	00:08:41:04	Babushkas at the Easter table in Maria S. house (Maria S., Hanna, Maria 2)		And whoever makes fun of us
116	00:08:44:10			will be beaten up.
117	00:08:48:18	Babushkas drinking shots of alcohol		Cheers!
118	00:08:53:08			This is so good.
119	00:08:59:02			· It was right around Easter. Yes, it was Easter.
120	00:09:00:23			We had our Easter cakes baked.
121	00:09:03:05			The village head came over and said,
122	00:09:06:13			‘Stop work, the reactor exploded.’
123	00:09:09:20			We saw a pillar of smoke, a circle of smoke.
124	00:09:17:08			A convoy of buses arrived
125	00:09:19:07			loaded us up and drove off.
126	00:09:21:17			I was evacuated to Kopyliv.
127	00:09:26:08			Oh, I can’t.
128	00:09:28:12			We’ll start crying if we talk about this.
129	00:09:31:00			Some of us weren’t even given water
130	00:09:33:09			because people didn’t want us there.
131	00:09:36:12			They said we brought radiation.
132	00:09:39:03			My darlings, when I returned home
133	00:09:42:10			I was one of the first to come back.
134	00:09:47:23			When I got here, I kneeled down
135	00:09:50:15			grabbed a handful of soil
136	00:09:52:20			put it in my mouth and said
137	00:09:54:15			‘I will never leave here again.’
138	00:09:57:22			Let’s have a drink. Stand up.
139	00:10:00:13			Christ is risen!
140	00:10:02:14			Truly, He is risen!
141	00:10:06:12			This is not to get drunk but to heal.
142	00:10:08:10			We won’t get any peace till the dusk.
143	00:10:10:16			I can tell.
144	00:10:13:05	Babushkas coming to sit on benches in front of a house – evacuated babushkas, living outside Zone		[LOWER THIRD] Lukashi Village 200 km outside the Zone
145	00:10:20:11			[LOWER THIRD] Relocated women Formerly of Mashevo Village (razed after explosion)
146	00:10:29:04			Let's sing this one.
147	00:10:33:08			The one you like?
148	00:10:38:03			We should have prepared better.
149	00:10:53:17			We were meant to be evicted for 3 days.
150	00:10:56:05			Not our whole lives.
151	00:10:59:02			Evacuated for 3 days.
152	00:11:01:11			That’s it.
153	00:11:03:07			Some villagers snuck back illegally, like rebels.
154	00:11:08:22			They walked for 70 km
155	00:11:11:01	Babushka walks on the road behind barbed wire fence		right after evacuation.
156	00:11:13:18			They dug under the barbed wire and got home that way.
157	00:11:20:12			Today, approximately 10 returnees live inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone - enduring on some of the most toxic land on Earth
158	00:11:27:05			Almost all of them are women.
159	00:11:34:22	Geiger counter beeping. Reactor		Right now we are in the very midst of the Zone
160	00:11:36:17			the epicenter of the accident.
161	00:11:39:10			The parking lot of the Nuclear Reactor No.4, where the explosion happened 27 years ago.
162	00:11:45:19			[LOWER THIRD] Vita Polyakova Official Government Guide
163	00:11:50:00		That sound of beeping all the time - it can become nervewracking.
164	00:11:58:21			Radiation levels near the reactor are approximately 60 times higher than normal. Exposure time is strictly controlled.
165	00:12:07:15		After the explosion, the Reactor didn’t exist anymore. The active core blew up. The steam literally drenched all the Exclusion Zone, around the reactor.
166	00:12:18:08	Map of the Zone with Reactor in the background.	This is Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the very center. And we have 10 km zone and then we have 30 km zone.
167	00:12:28:00	Reactor, sarcophagus	The structure which you see right now, that is the “sarcophagus”. Inside we have those fuel-containing masses and that is the source of radioactive dust.
168	00:12:36:15		Radioactive dust has been coming through the holes for 27 years. The radiation which we see here – that is radioactive dust coming from inside. Plus, the walls may just collapse.
169	00:12:57:07	Valentyna’s garden		[LOWER THIRD] Teremtsy Village Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
170	00:13:01:23			The sun is shining – it’s all good.
171	00:13:04:09			Babushka talks to herself…
172	00:13:07:15			because she has no one to talk to.
173	00:13:10:18			Who will bring me food? I only have whatever I grow.
174	00:13:15:03			Here – tomatoes, parsley…
175	00:13:19:09			Raspberries… raspberries…
176	00:13:22:16			Here it is my little raspberry bush…
177	00:13:25:10			Just growing here
178	00:13:27:19			my little raspberries…
179	00:13:32:16			I used to live in Pripyat.
180	00:13:35:16			It was a very beautiful town.
181	00:13:37:14			On April 26^th, 1986, at 1 a.m.
182	00:13:42:01			I was called into work – urgently.
183	00:13:48:20			I was a medic in the emergency room.
184	00:13:52:22			You can’t imagine how many people were there, my God.
185	00:13:57:01			We performed gastric cleansing on them,
186	00:13:59:05			intravenous therapy, all the injections.
187	00:14:03:13			The next morning, helicopters and planes
188	00:14:08:22			took the most critical patients to Moscow.
189	00:14:15:00			No one came back from there.
190	00:14:18:17			There’s a big cemetery there.
191	00:14:22:22			No one came back from there.
192	00:14:26:07			Literally, the next day, I got a splitting headache.
193	00:14:32:02			I had the feeling
194	00:14:36:08			that some monsters
195	00:14:39:14			with inhuman eyes and appearance
196	00:14:43:14			were before my eyes.
197	00:14:46:20			We weren’t allowed to say anything back then.
198	00:14:49:14			They told us there was ‘no radiation.’ That’s how it was.
199	00:14:55:16			Then all sorts of tumors started to appear.
200	00:15:06:04	Valentyna in her garden making raspberry jam		This takes time, of course, but I’m in no hurry. I’m retired.
	00:15:15:19			I want to mix this well…
	00:15:19:20			and grind the little seeds…
	00:15:21:22			so that we get even more goodness out of it.
	00:15:25:20			A chef should always taste her cooking.
	00:15:30:05			Blackcurrant leaves with raspberry… so delicious!
	00:15:35:04			And sandwiches with butter and jam!
	00:16:05:06	Ecotesters arrive at Hanna’s		Babushka!
	00:16:07:05			Hello, hello.
	00:16:12:18	Ecotesters helping with water, preparing to take samples		Would you carry that, please?
	00:16:15:20			This is for you.
	00:16:17:07			Thank you, thank you!
	00:16:19:21			We take samples of soil and anything else these women have for testing.
	00:16:26:11			The samples are taken to the laboratory for analysis.
	00:16:32:21			This is science.
	00:16:37:23	Eco testers checking records in their journal		Zavorotniy Oleksandr Andriyovych?
	00:16:40:03			He’s already dead. Cross him out.
	00:16:42:21			All these are dead, yeah?
	00:16:45:12			Not many people are left now.
	00:16:48:14			How is your health, Grandma?
	00:16:50:04			Oh, good!
	00:16:51:06			Good! You look good! You’re smiling.
	00:16:54:02			I’m 80 years old!
	00:16:55:17			So what? You look fine!
	00:16:57:11			Maybe you still go dancing?
	00:16:59:05			Go dancing where?
	00:17:00:10			Oh, so nowhere to go dancing?
	00:17:02:04			There’s nowhere to go dancing!
	00:17:03:19			We don’t have a nightclub!
	00:17:05:10			Is there a grandpa for you here?
	00:17:07:14			There’s not a single grandpa here!
	00:17:09:19			None?
	00:17:10:18			Well, there were two useless ones.
	00:17:15:05			Let’s go to your house.
	00:17:22:10	Eco testers taking samples of food from Hanna		Grandma, where do you have eggs?
	00:17:26:02			Carefully!
	00:17:27:04			Thank you!
	00:17:28:23			We try to follow how
	00:17:31:13			radionuclides migrate from year-to-year
	00:17:37:08			from soil to potatoes, from water…
	00:17:41:15			You get out and I’ll lock up!
	00:17:46:21			The crows fly in
	00:17:48:14			and eat all my eggs.
	00:17:51:11			I’m a geophysicist
	00:17:52:22			I understand where it’s dangerous and where it’s not.
	00:17:56:00			I have special equipment and I know everything.
	00:18:01:11	Hanna and eco tester in Hanna’s yard		When people ask me how I got back here, I say ’by helicopter.’
	00:18:05:10			I don’t say I crawled through bushes.
	00:18:07:15			You crawled through bushes?
	00:18:09:03			Yes.
	00:18:10:00			I ate a berry and thought ’if I die, so be it.’
	00:18:12:13			But I’m alive ‘till today.
	00:18:15:20			I’ve eaten everything but stones. I’m missing teeth. That’s it!
	00:18:22:00	Ecotesters in the field		Grandma, we have to take some soil.
	00:18:29:16			There’s a village outside the Zone.
	00:18:32:02			Everyone there eats food from the forest.
	00:18:35:04			They pick mushrooms, get firewood, kids go into the woods.
	00:18:39:21			Kids got contaminated early in childhood.
	00:18:43:11			They all had elevated levels of radiation.
	00:18:46:22			There was a scandal, of course
	00:18:50:08			because that village is outside the Zone.
	00:19:03:21	At babushka’s house		We’ve come to visit you.
	00:19:05:22			Don’t be afraid of us.
	00:19:07:23			We don’t contain radiation.
	00:19:15:15			It won’t hurt you.
	00:19:18:12	Ecotesters drinking home-made wine		Homemade strawberry wine.
	00:19:20:23	Cutaways of the babushka’s pantry; babushka and ecotester in a room		Last year she tried to
	00:19:23:20			kick us out with a shovel.
	00:19:28:11			-Because I was scared. -Why would you be scared?
	00:19:32:05	Babushka cleaning mushrooms, telling story about her evacuation		When they evacuated me
	00:19:34:04			they took me away at night, to a new house.
	00:19:39:07			I woke up and the sun had risen on the wrong side.
	00:19:45:06			The sun was rising on the wrong side.
	00:19:48:07			I knew I had to escape and went on foot.
	00:19:53:08			But now you’re back in your own house. Nice.
	00:19:55:10			I’ve lived here from the beginning to the end.
	00:20:04:15	Ecotesters measuring radiation at babushka house		530! WOW!.
	00:20:06:20			- How much? 530! - 530!
	00:20:08:07			Is that a lot?
	00:20:11:16			- Do you want to say this on camera? - No! Not this!
	00:20:15:02			Do we have too much radiation?
	00:20:24:22	“Stalkers” climbing over barbed wire in the forest at night		[LOWER THIRD] 1.3 km southeast of Dytyatky Checkpoint
	00:21:04:14	Maria S. on her porch telling the boar story		Wild boar!
	00:21:07:01			They dig up the potatoes, eat them up and go back.
	00:21:13:08			I scare them like this.
	00:21:16:21			And after they’ve had enough to eat, they run away.
	00:21:25:01			I live on my own.
	00:21:26:14	Maria’s sit-down interview in her house.		Whenever people come to see me, they always ask the same questions.
	00:21:29:22			Why did you come back?
	00:21:32:22			Aren’t you afraid of radiation?
	00:21:35:18			I’m not afraid of anything, darling.
	00:21:39:05			My daughter lives in Kiev.
	00:21:43:02			I buried my son when he was 32.
	00:21:49:06			That’s a photo of me in Kiev
	00:21:51:00			where I met my husband, or he met me.
	00:21:55:03			When we sat down to have dinner,
	00:22:00:07			I took my fork to reach for some sausage
	00:22:04:04			He said: ’No, take it from my hand.’
	00:22:09:11			That sausage was like the magnet he pulled me in with.
	00:22:14:14			We got married in Kiev.
	00:22:17:22			I organized a party there.
	00:22:21:01			Baba went dancing back then, now I’m no good…
	00:22:24:04			back then I was a star!
	00:22:55:10	Naumov measuring radiation with Geiger counter		Ah, a hot spot.
	00:22:58:09			Up to 20 microroentgens.
	00:23:03:14	Naumov in the forest		I constantly monitor information connected to the Chernobyl Zone.
	00:23:13:14			One thing I monitor is these crazy “stalkers”.
	00:23:19:01			“Stalkers” are people who illegally sneak
	00:23:20:18			into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
	00:23:23:04			Every three days, the police catch a “stalker”
	00:23:26:11			I can’t even imagine how many illegal entries
	00:23:28:08			the police don’t know about.
	00:23:31:21			It’s because of people playing
	00:23:34:03			the video game, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
	00:23:26:07	STALKER game		TEXT HERE IS PART OF GAME, NOT REMOVABLE
	00:23:53:03			The worst thing is when these so-called “stalkers”
	00:23:58:19			try to get to the ghost town, Pripyat.
	00:24:03:16			Pripyat – to get there on foot
	00:24:06:14			they have to take highly radioactive routes.
	00:24:10:22			They don’t understand the danger it poses
	00:24:13:14			to their lives and health
	00:24:17:03	Naumov in the forest w Geiger counter		A lot of the fans of the game are
	00:24:23:03			completely out of touch with reality.
	00:24:26:13			You can’t play games with the atom.
	00:24:34:00	Stalkers showing their route on the map		We’re approximately here
	00:24:36:05			30 km
	00:24:38:09			and Pripyat’s here.
	00:24:40:15	Stalkers sneaking through a field		This Zone is closed, it’s a security zone
	00:24:43:23			and that’s why we want to go.
	00:24:48:14			It’s a feeling of overcoming something forbidden.
	00:24:55:11			You’re drawn to it.
	00:25:01:02	Stalkers in an abandoned village		If you go to Chernobyl Zone
	00:25:03:02			you will see everything how it was 20 or 30 years ago.
	00:25:07:05			To go where no man’s foot has stepped for a long time.
	00:25:10:08	Stalkers in an abandoned house		It’s really interesting to see and explore these places.
	00:25:14:18			Here’s a stove
	00:25:18:21			The radioactive background is within the norm here.
	00:25:23:19			And here it’s a little elevated, around 20.
	00:25:35:11	Stalker picks up old papers, postcards, etc		This is from 1979.
	00:25:45:13	Stalker shots of Chernobyl nature		There are only some little places where we have a large level of radiation
	00:25:51:12			and we can escape these places.
	00:26:06:18	Stalkers meet a bab on in the Zone		Hello – where are you boys from?
	00:26:08:13			We’re from Kiev
	00:26:10:21			just going to take some pictures of Pripyat and other places.
	00:26:15:23			Well, go on then. This way.
	00:26:20:18			We saw militia today and ran to escape them.
	00:26:25:01			· On bikes? Yes.
	00:26:27:03			Ah, they are from the other village.
	00:26:34:09			Go in peace! Thank you!
	00:26:37:08			A babushka looking for mushrooms.
	00:26:39:04			She struggles to survive.
	00:27:04:02	Mary Mycio in Van		[LOWER THIRD] Mary Mycio Author, Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl
	00:27:04:03		This is perfect weather to be here. Because it’s after the rain, the ground is moist and it’s humid so everything’s staying in place.
	00:27:14:23		The worst kind of weather would be hot windy dry weather. Cause then the wind picks up the radiation and blows it around.
	00:27:22:20		That’s why the radiation maps keep changing. Because radiation doesn’t stay in one place, it moves around.
	00:27:31:00	Driving past abandoned ruined houses	Oh my gosh. Look at that. That’s a ruin.
	00:27:38:22		I haven’t been here for probably seven years. So it will be interesting to see what’s changed.
	00:27:54:15	Mary meets Valentyna		Hello!
	00:27:56:11			I thought I was going to miss you, I was at home, sorting berries.
	00:27:58:20			Would you like to come and see?
	00:28:02:09			Come just for 5 minutes.
	00:28:07:00	Valentyna walking through her garden		I use a lot of herbs.
	00:28:11:06			I use lots of dill – it’s a good diuretic.
	00:28:18:22			This is viburnum hanging here. It’s good for high blood pressure.
	00:28:25:00	Valentyna showing herbs and berries in her house		And this is lycopodium.
	00:28:27:17			Its pollen is good for burns and healing all sorts of wounds.
	00:28:30:20			How do you use it?
	00:28:32:20			You put the pollen on the wound.
	00:28:34:18			Do you have herbs you could take for radiation?
	00:28:38:18			For radiation? Everything!
	00:28:40:13		Everything
	00:28:56:08	Mary and Val in the forest		Nature is the source of energy and good spirits.
	00:29:00:03			Lean against the birch with your back.
	00:29:03:12			This way the tree passes its energy to a human being.
	00:29:11:21			This is heather. It calms the nervous system.
	00:29:16:03			That’s what my grandmother taught me.
	00:29:19:00			Do others in the village know about herbs?
	00:29:22:17			Many people know. They are surrounded by herbs. But others are not interested.
	00:29:26:17			You know how it is - if there’s a puddle
	00:29:30:14			some look in it and see the sky.
	00:29:33:04			Some see themselves.
	00:29:34:17			Some see nothing. That’s just how it is.
	00:29:42:02			I got married to my late husband here.
	00:29:46:19			He was involved in the clean-up after the accident.
	00:29:50:23			We were together for 40 years.
	00:29:57:01		Valentyna has had some health problems. She was at the reactor site the night of the disaster. That means that she got some pretty serious radiation doses.
	00:30:06:10		So she got thyroid cancer and had her thyroid removed two years after the accident.
	00:30:11:10			Pani Valentyna, you’re healthier than all of us.
	00:30:14:13			Of course, because I live off herbs and all you do is eat meat.
	00:30:18:00			· No, I don’t. You do, I know you do.
	00:30:21:21	Valentyna picks mushroom to put on the tree		We’ll put this mushroom down here for hedgehogs.
	00:30:26:16			They’re small so they’ll be able to reach it.
	00:30:29:07			In winter they don’t eat snow, but they will eat mushrooms.
	00:30:35:12			These are for the roe-deer, these are for the moose.
	00:30:38:21			As you walk around and see decorated trees
	00:30:41:15			you’ll know crazy Valentyna Ivanivna was behind it.
	00:30:44:16			She’s a little cuckoo!
	00:30:47:19			But I do what I feel is right.
	00:30:51:05		A mushroom isn’t just a mushroom. It’s a huge-huge organism.
	00:30:56:16		And the layers in which it is absorbing nutrients are the most radioactive layers of the soil.
	00:31:04:10		If you are eating mushrooms, you might be absorbing radiation actually from a great distance.
	00:31:12:00		So, this may be clean – this area here may be clean, but these mushrooms might be dirty. And the only way of knowing is taking them to a lab, burning them and testing.
	00:31:21:15	Valentyna walking around the forest, picking mushrooms	If they are eating the local food they are absorbing radiation:
	00:31:25:06		cesium, which accumulates in muscle, and strontium, which accumulates in bone.
	00:31:32:09	Mary in the forest, measuring radiation on the soil	This forest – it looks like a storybook to me. But, there’s a deeper story.
	00:31:56:14	Hanna bringing firewood from outside her gate		This wood’s from the Zone. Everything’s clean here.
	00:32:00:06			A forest worker helps me out.
	00:32:06:15			I give him 100 Hryvnya
	00:32:10:05			and a liter of moonshine.
	00:32:13:10			People don’t like to take money from me, so I give them moonshine.
	00:32:17:04			We say –
	00:32:18:08			full moon, full bottles of moonshine
	00:32:34:21	Hanna cleaning mushrooms in her yard		I’ll cook some mushrooms for you.
	00:32:37:14			I’ll sauté them with some onions.
	00:32:41:04			I’ll wash these and oh, my God!
	00:32:45:18			Delicious!
	00:32:48:06	Hanna getting water from the well. Goes back to cleaning mushrooms.		I was born during Stalin’s enforced famine.
	00:32:53:09			People who had milk didn’t swell from hunger.
	00:32:57:12			Those who didn’t, swelled.
	00:33:02:05			Hunger is hunger – that’s it!
	00:33:06:09			Radiation doesn’t scare me.
	00:33:08:18			Starvation does.
	00:33:24:16			[LOWER THIRD] Chernobyl Town 15 km from Reactor No.4
	00:33:30:00			[LOWER THIRD] Before the accident, Chernobyl Town was the district capital with a population of 14,000.
	00:33:38:07			Chernobyl Town is for the people who work inside the Zone.
	00:33:42:02			Security, or maintenance
	00:33:44:01			or researchers, and they do not live here.
	00:33:47:22			They stay here for 15 days per month, then they’re out
	00:22:50:22			then once again they come, so that’s a constant rotation.
	00:33:55:08	Post Office building w the sign displaying radiation levels		At the post office, there’s a sign which shows the levels of background radiation
	00:33:59:09			in the most important locations everywhere in the Exclusion Zone.
	00:34:05:05		Geiger counters take the measurements and then every hour they update the information. And over here on the screen one can see that.
	00:34:13:19			[Pripyat] 339 Microroentgens/hour
	00:34:14:02		The level of radiation here actually exceeds the limit.
	00:34:27:13	Post worker Olga making a phone call to inform babushkas about pension.		[LOWER THIRD] Olga Mykolaivna Chernobyl Postal Worker
	00:34:35:20			Hello… Grygorivna?
	00:34:39:00			Tell everyone the pension is coming tomorrow.
	00:34:42:10			In the morning, we’ll leave at 8:00.
	00:34:45:18			OK, good. Tell everybody.
	00:34:48:19			[SUPER] Due to economic instability and corruption, persions have not been delivered for 4 months.
	00:34:57:16	Postal/pension delivery van		I’ve been working here since 1986.
	00:35:02:03			I deliver pensions to the villages in Chernobyl.
	00:35:10:00	Hanna trying to lock chickens in the shed.		Go in the shed now, go in there.
	00:35:14:08			Oh, I need to go and get the money!
	00:35:21:05	Hanna gets ready to go get her pension		Baba hides her boots in here.
	00:35:24:16			It’s so stupid to live to 100!
	00:35:30:18			Baba already feels 100!
	00:35:33:07			It’s so difficult to stand up.
	00:35:42:19	Hanna leaves house		Let’s go.
	00:35:49:18	Hanna walking down the road		Ah, my leg hurts. Hurts, hurts.
	00:35:53:20			These aren’t legs, these are torture.
	00:36:11:23			OK, Zavorotnya Hanna Oleksiivna.
	00:36:14:22			- Where? Zavorotnya, here? · Here, Zavorotnya.
	00:36:18:04			1,000.
	00:36:19:18			100, 200, 300, 400…
	00:36:29:00			20, 30, 40, 55
	00:36:33:06			and 60.
	00:36:35:08			Thank you, daughters, for the money.
	00:36:38:09			Any bonuses?
	00:36:46:17	Postal worker Olga in the van		My favorite village was Ladyzhychi.
	00:36:51:10			Very friendly people.
	00:36:55:12			But they all died.
	00:37:03:09	PW distributing pensions in village 2.		7 Hryvnia and 4 kopecs.
	00:37:07:07			How can you wait four months for this?
	00:37:10:22			I’m disabled.
	00:37:13:04			It’s a nightmare!
	00:37:15:09			You can’t get a loaf of bread!
	00:37:18:01			Or a little pastry.
	00:37:21:01			We have nothing.
	00:37:37:16	Postal van on the road to next village		It gets worse every year.
	00:37:39:06			The doctors used to come with us
	00:37:42:07			to check every babushka’s blood pressure
	00:37:45:03			and give them shots or pills.
	00:37:46:18			They might come once a month, maybe.
	00:37:49:13			In winter, when everything is covered with snow
	00:37:52:22			and the roads are impassable
	00:37:56:09			even I can’t visit there.
	00:37:59:07			When I go to deliver her pension
	00:38:01:17			there are wolves running around!
	00:38:05:16			Basically a person is out there all alone.
	00:38:13:07	Postal worker at the dying babushkas house		Let’s take babushka some food.
	00:38:20:06			She’s usually outside, but not today.
	00:38:25:21			In this house you should cross yourself
	00:38:28:19			pray and get out.
	00:38:32:06			Are you at home? She’s not here
	00:38:34:23			Yakovna?
	00:38:36:18			What happened?
	00:38:39:04			I fell – so bad.
	00:38:40:20			Ah, you fell?
	00:38:42:04			- You are not getting up, are you? - No.
	00:38:45:03			You need to go to the hospital, you can’t be here like this.
	00:38:50:07			Someone from your family should come.
	00:38:53:14			Your granddaughter, maybe?
	00:38:56:04			You won’t make it here alone
	00:39:01:02	Postal worker giving pension to the dying babushka		-OK, give this to her. -Where?
	00:39:05:11			Where shall I put it for you?
	00:39:22:22			Here you go.
	00:39:30:16			Here, underneath you
	00:39:32:15			I’ve put it, I’ve put it.
	00:39:40:14			Don’t cry, don’t cry.
	00:40:11:18			Yakovna was removed to a nursing home outside the Zone where she died.
	00:40:18:02			Per her wishes, her body was smuggled back into the Zone, where she was buried – illegally.
	00:40:30:17			[SINGING] When the time comes to die
	00:40:38:17			a foreign land will bury me
	00:40:57:04			and the Motherland will never know.
	00:41:07: 22	Maria S porch. She’s showing headscarves.		Here it is, here it is.
	00:41:12:18			This is for Baba for her death. Let it be there for now.
	00:41:19:13			Everything should be nice with no wrinkles.
	00:41:24:06			There’s no village now but back when there were many people,
	00:41:27:20			When a person died…
	00:41:30:14			at the funeral…
	00:41:32:09			no matter how many people were there…
	00:41:35:19			in the house or outside…
	00:41:37:23			each person would get a scarf.
	00:41:43:15			Men would get a scarf around their arm.
	00:41:47:20			Those who carried the coffin…
	00:41:49:13			and those who laid down the sand…
	00:41:52:11			everyone was given a scarf.
	00:41:55:00			So Baba has collected those, since before the explosion.
	00:42:01:07	Maria S cleaning flower bulbs in her yard		I remember everything, my darlings.
	00:42:04:17			My father died when I was two.
	00:42:08:02			We didn’t see anything good.
	00:42:12:00			We were naked and barefoot and hungry.
	00:42:16:08			We did starve. We did, we did.
	00:42:19:21			Many people died during the famine.
	00:42:23:11			And then the war broke out.
	00:42:27:06			It was actually easier for us during the war
	00:42:31:01			even though war was raging
	00:42:34:08			through Chernobyl and our village.
	00:42:38:03			The Germans were retreating there
	00:42:41:23			and our armies were attacking from over here.
	00:42:47:00			They gathered up us teenagers to bury the dead...
	00:42:57:09			soldiers who died in the fields…
	00:43:00:12			both German and ours.
	00:43:04:20			We dug pits
	00:43:08:08			covered the bodies with overcoats
	00:43:11:05			and put them in the pit.
	00:43:17:20			I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.
	00:43:20:11			Never, ever.
	00:43:22:19			The things we saw.
	00:43:27:08			And now we should live
	00:43:30:19			but years of life are running out.
	00:43:34:02			That’s the way it is.
	00:43:49:14	Stalkers sneaking by the bridge, get to the river. drinking water from the river		Here’s the bridge
	00:43:52:23			Come on, now – drink the water.
	00:43:55:18			Then film me and I’ll drink some too.
	00:44:04:15			This water is great.
	00:44:06:07			Probably better than in Kiev.
	00:44:10:08			It has a light uranium aftertaste.
	00:44:13:12	Stalker with radiation measuring device		Our devices indicate that background (radiation) is increasing.
	00:44:19:15			But we’re not giving up. We’re moving further into the contaminated zone.
	00:44:24:20			Let’s go!
	00:44:27:14			Let’s go!
	00:44:31:02			[SIGN] ATTENTION! ENTERING STRICTLY FORBIDDEN!
	00:44:36:18	Stalkers crossing barbed wire to the burial ground.		We’ve gotten to the exact spot we were aiming for.
	00:44:38:21			Through the barbed wire.
	00:44:41:11			This should be the ’Graveyard.’
	00:44:48:10			Mostly these are places where radioactive waste is buried, machinery.
	00:44:55:03			There’s tons of machinery there.
	00:45:19:21			Now let’s get out of here.
	00:45:29:11			The infamous reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
	00:45:43:11			Start warming the house at 9 in the evening.
	00:45:47:02			If you cover well, you’ll sleep good.
	00:45:51:00			At my house, you will not fall asleep.
	00:45:54:05			Since it got colder, I have to heat my house twice a day
	00:45:56:06			morning and evening.
	00:45:57:15			Too bad we don’t live in the same village.
	00:46:00:07			I could come warm you up.
	00:46:04:12			Come on in, anywhere you wish.
	00:46:10:22			Dear girls, come here, I have pancakes for you.
	00:46:15:20	Dinner table at Maria’s		Here’s some wine if you don’t want vodka.
	00:46:21:11	Hanna and Maria S drinking shots of vodka		Goodbye brains, see you tomorrow!
	00:46:28:14	Babushka having dinner		We’ve been friends forever.
	00:46:33:08			She used to bring me sacks
	00:46:35:23			I’d bring potato sacks for Baba Hanna.
	00:46:42:04			Once I ran into the street, bragging about a shirt made of this.
	00:46:50:07			When you wear it, you want to scratch your body
	00:46:55:05			But now I save it, Maria, because it was my mom’s.
	00:46:59:07			It smells like my mom.
	00:47:01:18			We went to the village and to school with these bags.
	00:47:06:11			I went to first grade when I was seven.
	00:47:10:21			I finished four years.
	00:47:13:16			So you can write and I can’t.
	00:47:17:00			I’m just a talking kind of person.
	00:47:19:19			My husband punished me for that.
	00:47:24:09			He was a drunk, he would come home and look out!
	00:47:28:06			We met, we lived together for many decades.
	00:47:32:23			He died three years ago.
	00:47:35:14			We existed, not lived together.
	00:47:38:17			He would pass out drunk under the fence, he took all the money!
	00:47:43:09			I went to my grandma, because my mother had already abandoned me
	00:47:48:00			and I said, ’Baba, I want to leave him.’
	00:47:50:07			She said, ’Nobody in our family has ever left their husband, you should stay.’
	00:47:56:14			We say if the calf is born a certain way, he stays that way.
	00:48:00:18			It would have been better if we’d never met.
	00:48:03:02			Yes.
	00:48:04:20			Now he’s gone, and I have everything.
	00:48:08:16	Babushkas singing in Maria’s house		[SINGING] Hey, dance, my yellow shoes! Let’s dance!
	00:48:10:23			When I get married, I’ll be crying. You’ll be forgotten then.
	00:48:19:05			Once again!
	00:48:20:16			[SINGING] Play, accordion player! Play, my little dovey!
	00:48:24:14			Don’t leave your girlfriend, like my beloved did!
	00:48:33:03			That’s enough!
	00:48:34:21			You forgot the one about the mother who gives birth in the fields.
	00:49:41:10	Vita visits Hanna	Babushkas Hanya
	00:49:44:00			Babushka Hanya, hello!
	00:49:47:00			How are you doing?
	00:49:48:07			Oh, so good!
	00:49:49:13			Really, were you asleep?
	00:49:51:06			I was asleep.
	00:49:52:16			I’m so happy to see you!
	00:49:56:00			Where do you get your energy?
	00:49:58:20			I see you have plenty of apples!
	00:50:00:22			Lots of apples and plums.
	00:50:04:13	Hanna takes Vita inside the house		Hello, Babushka Sonya!
	00:50:06:11			Say hello, Sonya.
	00:50:08:13			You come when I don’t have anything cooked.
	00:50:10:19			I’ll quickly make pancakes, just a few.
	00:50:13:20		We are forced to eat. All the Ukrainian land ladies have to feed their guests ‘till they are just “ughhhh.”
	00:50:24:08		Only then they are persuaded you are happy and they have fulfilled their duty.
	00:50:29:04		Otherwise, they get insulted. Lethally insulted.
	00:50:33:23			Let me take that.
	00:50:35:08			Here on the plate, try this one.
	00:50:38:09			This one is ready.
	00:50:41:01			-Yes. - Is it not good?
	00:50:43:07			Let me help you do something.
	00:50:47:07		Will you please let me help you?
	00:50:49:16			That’s it, I’ve done everything.
	00:50:53:04			I’ll get you some cucumbers, let’s go!
	00:50:59:15	Vita in Hanna’s yard	I know there are risks.
	00:51:02:06		But as for these babushkas I just can’t say no. Just eat the minimum you can, drink the minimum you can. That’s it.
	00:51:13:01	Hanna picking cucumbers in her garden. Vita in Hanna’s backyard	When I first came and met them still living here I was amazed how kind they are and how strong they are. They’re so committed to what they do, to their homeland although it is contaminated.
	00:51:45:00	Ecotesters at house #3, getting water from the well, loading samples in the van and leaving.		Come in, please.
	00:51:47:00			Hello
	00:52:06:00	Eco testers arriving at Radiation lab, bringing in samples		[LOWER THIRD] Chernobyl Town Radiation Testing Laboratory
	00:52:18:13	Lab workers in the lab, running tests		All samples from the Zone are radioactive.
	00:52:23:03			Some returnees have brought in water from their wells.
	00:52:28:01			I feel sorry for people drinking that polluted water.
	00:52:32:20			But old people who don’t want to leave
	00:52:37:08			say they’ll drink the water anyway.
	00:52:43:08			It’s just their ignorance and simple lack of knowledge.
	00:52:47:01			Naturally, the babushkas are old now.
	00:52:49:13			When they returned, they were already old.
	00:52:52:22			But we need to do the research
	00:52:54:14			because this is the lives of future generations
	00:52:57:04			and their health.
	00:52:59:11			Plutonium, americium and uranium
	00:53:02:09			don’t just go away.
	00:53:04:21			They’ll be here for thousands of years.
	00:53:17:16	Mary in a van, driving through the Zone		Zalissya – do people still live there?
	00:53:19:23			One lady
	00:53:21:10		There’s one lady in Zalissya?
	00:53:26:13		They really are dying off.
	00:53:30:00	Mary walking through the forest, in the abandoned village	Younger animals, and we are including humans among animals, are far more susceptible to the affects of radiation.
	00:53:38:05		The reason why they semi-officially allowed the babushkas to live here is because they figured that old age will kill them before any kind of radiation does.
	00:53:48:18	Mary peaks into abandoned house	Hello?!
	00:53:53:12		Wild boars can pop out of anywhere.
	00:54:00:18		For the people who came back it’s impossible to tease out what’s radiation, what’s drinking, what’s smoking.
	00:54:07:10		So far, the only cancer that has been absolutely definitely connected to Chernobyl is thyroid cancer. That said, the upper estimates are that up to tens of thousands might have died of radiation induced cancers.
	00:54:23:10		All of the medical studies are flawed and flawed in such a way that partisans on both sides of the nuclear debate can argue that the studies prove their point. And that’s one of the big problems.
	00:54:39:17		You don’t come here for clear answers.
	00:54:46:06	Medical office. SICH chair		[LOWER THIRD] Chernobyl Town Medical Center
	00:54:52:14	SICH chair, med workers in the office		This machine is a spectrometer of radiation.
	00:54:55:19			It’s used to measure
	00:54:58:13			cesium 137 in the human body.
	00:55:00:07			The level of radiation someone has been exposed to.
	00:55:06:14			Your last name?
	00:55:08:13	Valentyna sitting in medical SICH chair		Sa-che-nok. From ’Sachkuvaty’ to be lazy, but I work.
	00:55:14:16			What’s your weight?
	00:55:17:08			I’m a little overweight
	00:55:20:09			Around 95-100 kg, right?
	00:55:22:22			- Oh, that’s too much! - Too much?
	00:55:24:11			Should we just say 86, like in your records here?
	00:55:27:04			- 89. - OK, 89.
	00:55:29:22			- People gain weight as they get older. - Of course.
	00:55:32:22			- Have you been checked before? - Right after the accident.
	00:55:36:04			Press your back against the chair
	00:55:37:17			and don’t move.
	00:55:41:15			You don’t get much food from the forest, do you?
	00:55:44:18			- I eat many things from the forest. - A lot?
	00:55:47:00			Yes, I know good places to pick food.
	00:55:50:02			I pick berries and mushrooms from safe places.
	00:55:55:08			The results are coming up.
	00:56:05:09	Valentyna answers a phone call		It takes forever to find it!
	00:56:13:05			I’m busy now, I’ll call you later.
	00:56:22:13	Valentyna’s test results on the computer screen		Valentyna Ivanivna, the level of cesium in your body is elevated
	00:56:27:16			but it’s within the Maximum Average Dosage.
	00:56:31:00			Did you tell me the actual results?
	00:56:32:20			Or lie, so I don’t worry?
	00:56:34:17			No, of course not.
	00:56:36:06			You’re fine.
	00:56:37:21			So I’ll live, right?
	00:56:40:03			This doesn’t mean radiation isn’t dangerous.
	00:56:43:10			But it does show that socio-psychological factors
	00:56:46:23			also greatly influence health.
	00:56:50:11			There was a study that calculated
	00:56:55:17			the mortality of those who left vs. those who stayed.
	00:57:05:14			It showed that evacuees died younger than those who stayed.
	00:57:11:07			Quite simply, people die from anguish.
	00:57:26:20	Evacuated babushkas in circle, on bench		[LOWER THIRD] Lukashi Village 200 km outside the Zone
	00:57:39:10			[LOWER THIRD] Relocated women formerly of Mashevo Village
	00:57:45:22			We’ve known each other since birth.
	00:57:48:04			We’re all from the same village.
	00:57:50:17			Mashevo village.
	00:57:53:06			We still have dreams about being there.
	00:57:58:08			But Mashevo is inside the 10 km Zone.
	00:58:01:08			No one went back.
	00:58:06:00			Our area was fenced off with barbed wire.
	00:58:10:13			You can’t get there.
	00:58:14:00			We still want to go home
	00:58:16:14			because our lives happened there
	00:58:19:11			our childhoods
	00:58:21:11			raising children, celebrating marriages
	00:58:25:20			seeing loved ones off to the army, everything.
	00:58:29:17			Motherland is Motherland.
	00:58:33:13			We don’t worry for ourselves anymore
	00:58:36:02			our time has passed.
	00:58:38:05			We worry about the children.
	00:58:39:21			Life is tough for them, and that’s sorrow for us.
	00:58:45:22			We had everything in the forest.
	00:58:48:22			Our children remember
	00:58:51:08			but their children will never know.
	00:59:01:01	Stalker, Pripyat.		Our GPS shows we’re in Pripyat.
	00:59:05:07			We’ve been waiting so long for this!
	00:59:11:05	Stalker, abandoned buildings in Pripyat		It’s a place after armageddon
	00:59:13:05			an apocalyptical place.
	00:59:16:14			It’s a world without people.
	00:59:20:06			It’s a ghost town.
	00:59:23:14			Officially, I have the status of a “Child of Chernobyl.”
	00:59:29:05	Stalker by abandoned highrise, picking apples from tree		My grandfather spent a month in the Zone fighting the Chernobyl fire.
	00:59:34:06			He must’ve been here against his will…
	00:59:37:01			but I choose to go.
	00:59:41:13	Stalker video – abandoned sightseeing wheel, walking on the streets on Pripyat		He wouldn’t be happy that I go.
	01:00:23:12	Stalkers on the highrise rooftop		This is a post-apocalyptic romance.
	01:00:53:08	Sarcophagus		That structure is the future of Chernobyl
	01:00:56:02			the “New Safe Confinement” that is going to last for 100 years and more
	01:01:01:18			On two rails, they are going to slide the arch
	01:01:04:09			over the old sarcophagus
	01:01:09:08			This arch will confine the old shelter
	01:01:13:18			and all that radioactive dust, it will keep it inside.
	01:01:17:21			The 10 km Zone will most probably never be open for the general public.
	01:01:23:03			There are about 800 burial sites for the spent nuclear fuel
	01:01:26:22			for the radioactive waste here
	01:01:28:23			plus, we drag used sources of ionizing radiation
	01:01:32:11			from the rest of the nuclear power plants in Ukraine.
	01:01:35:02			There are four of them, apart from Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
	01:01:38:04			All the waste are carried to the 10 km Zone.
	01:01:42:07			So the 10 km Zone will never be safe
	01:01:52:07	Shots of cemetery. Mary talking	What the Zone will be in the future?
	01:01:55:15		It will be that Sarcophagus. And it will be that new covering on the Sarcophagus.
	01:02:01:04		And how they intend to make that last forever, which it will have to, is sort of one of THE great mysteries of Chernobyl.
	01:02:11:00		I mean, it will have to last longer than the pyramids.
	01:02:15:11		What’s gonna happen 5,000 years from now, what’s gonna be there? Something has to be there.
	01:02:20:10		And if nothing is there, people will unknowingly go live there and die, not knowing why.
	01:02:27:00		Now that it seems that probably every generation or so there will be a catastrophic breakdown at a nuclear power plant, it’s something that the world needs to think about.
	01:02:42:00		The babushkas generation is passing. The population is definitely dwindling.
	01:02:49:15		You always kind of wonder about the last specimen of a dying species. And how lonely that must be.
	01:03:16:03	Bus driving at night		[SUPER] THE BABUSHKAS JOIN ZONE WORKERS FOR THE ONLY CHURCH SERVICE OF THE YEAR, EASTER MIDNIGHT MASS.
	01:03:38:02	Babushkas in church		Oh, it’s so beautiful.
	01:03:44:12			Lord, give us strength and have mercy on us, so we are not in pain.
	01:03:50:03			We are old people so we pray.
	01:03:54:22			It’s like getting healthier, stronger.
	01:04:08:09	Priest conducting Easter Mass. People outside the church with lit candles. Church bells ringing		Blessed is our Lord
	01:04:11:16			always, now and forever.
	01:04:36:02	Priest blessing Easter baskets		Christ is risen!
	01:04:47:01			-You’re getting moonshine blessed? -Yes, moonshine.
	01:04:50:22			You can have wine blessed.
	01:04:53:00			Why not moonshine?
	01:04:54:03			It’s not allowed. Hide it.
	01:04:55:21			It’s all allowed.
	01:05:16:20	Babushkas in the bus on their way home.		I don’t regret anything.
	01:05:19:08			I’m still so happy that I’m in my own house.
	01:05:24:23			I’m not dependent on anyone.
	01:05:31:21			I go and work in my garden.
	01:05:35:09			The sun shines above me.
	01:05:37:15			And God looks after me.
	01:04:41:23	Maria gets off the bus.		My stop is next.
	01:05:47:20			Open the door and push her out!
	01:05:54:04			Thanks! Have a safe journey!
	01:06:10:12	Hanna walks to her house		Thank God I returned home to my Motherland.
	01:06:16:16	Hanna enters her house		We were never afraid.
	01:06:21:14			You don’t get sick in your Motherland.
	01:06:26:09	Hanna greets Sonya.		Sonya, Christ is risen!
	01:06:27:17			Truly, He is risen.
	01:06:47:23	Valentyna headed towards the river to fish		[SINGS] My mother planted marigolds
	01:06:55:20			and taught me to sing songs of spring
	01:07:02:22			about my blossoming hopes.
	01:07:12:19	Valentyna fishing		Come, come, fish
	01:07:18:10			big and small
	01:07:25:15			Each person should live where their soul desires.
	01:07:34:10			And so my life goes on…
	01:07:41:06			Look, I did catch a little something!
	01:07:43:14			I hope you don’t doubts, that Valentyna Ivanivna is a fisherwoman!
	01:07:52	END CREDITS

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Film: Babushkas of Chernobyl

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