The Babushkas of Chernobyl
An intimate documentary portrait of elderly Ukrainian women who refuse to abandon their homes despite radioactive contamination, balancing defiance and melancholy with deep attachment to place and memory.
Some 200 women defiantly cling to their ancestral homeland in Chernobyl’s radioactive “Exclusion Zone.”
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