Heavy Water: a film for Chernobyl Trailer

A trailer of the 52 minute documentary now available to buy on DVD from www.seventh-art.com.
On April 26th, 1986, reactor four at Chernobyl nuclear power station explodes, sending an enormous radioactive cloud over Northern Ukraine and neighbouring Belarus. The danger is kept a secret from the rest of the world and the nearby population who go about their business as usual. May Day celebrations begin, children play and the residents of Pripyat marvel at the spectacular fire raging at the reactor. After three days, an area the size of England becomes contaminated with radioactive dust, creating a 'zone' of poisoned land.

Based on Mario Petrucci?s award-winning book-length poem, Heavy Water: a film for Chernobyl tells the story of the people who dealt with the disaster at ground-level: the fire-fighters, the soldiers, the 'liquidators', and their families.

Poetry read by David Bickerstaff, Francine Brody, Juliet Stevenson, David Threlfall and Samuel West.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Chernobyl
• nuclear
• disaster
• ukraine
• pripyat
• julietstevensons
• samuelwest
• davidthrelfall
• poetry
• literature
• radioactive

[Michaelingolfhansen]

Yeah I understand!

My statement was just to avoid confusion about whether or not Chernobyl was a heavy-water plant!

[syrafex]

The title isn't meant to be taken that literally. For instance, the shorter version of the book is called "Half Life: Journey To Chernobyl" but doesn't have anything to do with the actual term as far as I'm aware.

[Michaelingolfhansen]

Heavy water wasent used in the Chernobyl reactor that blew up.

Heavy water is harmless BTW!

[princeteagarden]

ive ordered this on the net it should be comming monday ne good is it??

thanks

[PHARRAOH]

you say your brother went to pripyat? what did he need to do? how did he get all this? I'm in California but plan another trip to Ufa next year and want to go to see this Pripyat while I am in the country? Please tell me all you know.

[IRONDIMON]

That's nice man.Interesting stuff.

[sammyballoo]

my bro just came back from a tour of pripyat. took loads of interesting pics

[IRONDIMON]

Yes it is.

[sammyballoo]

isn't it paint peeling off a wall?

[mencken]

This was utterly surreal. Say, was the torn up paper thing a relief map of the Western United States?