
The Babushkas of Chernobyl
Approximately 100 women refuse to leave their homeland within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. While most of their neighbors are long gone and their husbands have died one by one, those elderly women stubbornly hold out. Why do they insist in living within a perimeter deemed by both scientists and the Ukrainian Government as uninhabitable? How were they able to handle themselves thus isolated from the rest of the world, confined to a space guarded by armed forces and occupied by feral animals? How did the radiations affect them within the last 29 years? The Babushkas of Chernobyl invites us to witness the story of a community that, despite hystorical events, keeps thriving livefully.
- Director:
- Holly Morris, Anne Bogart
- Year:
- 2015
- Country:
- USA
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Duration:
- 71 minutes
- Language:
- Russian
- Subtitles:
- English, Romanian
Awards and festivals:
Los Angeles Film Festival 2015 – Special Jury Honor Award for Directing Woodstock Film Festival 2015- Best Editing & Special Jury Award for Best DocumentarySanta Fe Independent Film Festival 2015 – Best Documentary Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam 2015 – Audience Award