1 00:00:03,860 --> 00:00:06,840 The Samosely are the people who never accepted the mandatory 2 00:00:06,859 --> 00:00:09,360 evacuation after the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl. 3 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:13,240 In defiance of the laws, they returned to their houses in the Exclusion Zone. 4 00:00:13,300 --> 00:00:17,300 According to the official reports, there are about 150 of them. 5 00:00:17,380 --> 00:00:22,320 In fact, there are no more than 50 of them living there. 6 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:56,400 April 26, 1986... 7 00:00:56,680 --> 00:00:58,140 Chernobyl 8 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:05,380 This is where the biggest nuclear disaster ever took place. 9 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:13,420 As a result of a botched safety test, the reactor No. 4 exploded... 10 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:19,540 which caused radioactive pollution of the scale previously unknown. 11 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:26,660 The area inhabited by 145.000 people was affected most. 12 00:01:26,860 --> 00:01:30,680 This event has since become a milestone in the history of the entire planet. 13 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:35,760 The people who lived nearby were affected most. 14 00:01:36,020 --> 00:01:39,540 Most of them did not understand the urgency of what had happened 15 00:01:39,540 --> 00:01:42,808 until the moment they were ordered to leave their houses. 16 00:01:42,832 --> 00:01:46,100 The mandatory evacuation of Pripyat and nearby villages 17 00:01:46,140 --> 00:01:50,360 was launched no sooner than 36 hours after the explosion. 18 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:54,480 This is how the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone came to existence. 19 00:01:54,580 --> 00:01:59,440 An area of 2600 square kilometers... 20 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:02,460 contaminated and encompassed by barbed wire. 21 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:04,640 Locked down. 22 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:07,760 Nonetheless, some decided to come back. 23 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:13,360 They walked through the woods and swamps to, again, live in their own huts. 24 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:19,160 They were so attached to this soil that they chose living in the abandoned villages 25 00:02:19,180 --> 00:02:21,240 over anywhere else. 26 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:27,300 "I was born here and I will die here too" - they say. 27 00:02:27,420 --> 00:02:31,920 They are facing the age-related issues as well as loneliness. 28 00:02:32,020 --> 00:02:35,172 This is why, every winter for the past 5 29 00:02:35,196 --> 00:02:39,160 years, a group of Poles from Napromieniowani.pl 30 00:02:39,180 --> 00:02:44,000 comes to visit the babushkas of Chernobyl and help them 31 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:48,480 by bringing food, warm clothes, chopping firewood 32 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:52,520 and, simply, by spending time with them. Priceless time... 33 00:02:53,060 --> 00:02:55,360 In the abandoned world. 34 00:02:55,720 --> 00:03:00,520 Three decades ago, there were about 3000 settlers living here. 35 00:03:00,620 --> 00:03:03,740 Today, there are only a couple of dozens 36 00:03:03,740 --> 00:03:07,800 and this number shrinks every year. 37 00:03:09,220 --> 00:03:14,960 Those are the Last People of Chernobyl. 38 00:03:31,100 --> 00:03:34,140 Produced by: XBestCinema 39 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:42,620 Directed by/Photography: Amadeusz Kocan 40 00:03:47,940 --> 00:03:51,120 Narrator: Tomasz Knapik 41 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:01,040 Sound: Amadeusz Kocan 42 00:04:05,940 --> 00:04:08,900 Music: Alan Bucki 43 00:04:13,980 --> 00:04:17,040 Computer effects: Bartosz Wabno 44 00:04:22,380 --> 00:04:25,500 Editing/colorization: Amadeusz Kocan 45 00:04:29,620 --> 00:04:32,640 Additional computer effects: Robert Sawicki 46 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:39,420 Producer: Krystian Machnik 47 00:04:44,980 --> 00:04:48,040 Graphics: Kinga Klakla 48 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:55,600 Photo report: Maciej Bogaczyk 49 00:05:00,020 --> 00:05:02,920 Interpreter: Marek Baryshevskyi 50 00:05:08,220 --> 00:05:11,840 Organization of the charity expedition: Krystian Machnik 51 00:05:55,940 --> 00:05:57,560 - Good morning! - Good morning... 52 00:05:57,620 --> 00:06:00,920 Do you remember us? We visited you last year... 53 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:04,760 Yes, yes... Oh, thank you... Good Lord... May God help you 54 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:06,640 - I know who you are! - Yes? 55 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:10,560 - Oh, my sweethearts! 56 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:13,078 Yes, it's a new one because I remembered how your 57 00:06:13,102 --> 00:06:15,640 old one was fixed with adhesive tape and screws... 58 00:06:17,840 --> 00:06:19,760 Have a try 59 00:06:20,060 --> 00:06:22,160 It's still wet from the rain 60 00:06:22,280 --> 00:06:25,500 - O, how nice... - And so light... 61 00:06:25,500 --> 00:06:26,880 - Oh yes! Oh, thank you.... 62 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:28,860 Do you remember our last year's photo? 63 00:06:28,860 --> 00:06:30,940 Turn the light on! 64 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:33,180 It doesn't work? 65 00:06:33,180 --> 00:06:34,800 I have no light here. 66 00:06:34,840 --> 00:06:37,880 - We'll bring a bulb and fix it - There's no electricity here 67 00:06:37,940 --> 00:06:39,580 It's all burned out 68 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:41,020 There was a storm 69 00:06:41,020 --> 00:06:42,720 No, it doesn't work 70 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:47,640 Oh, this is where it's broken. Here... 71 00:06:47,700 --> 00:06:50,040 - We'll see to it later... - What a nice photo! 72 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:55,720 - Look, here we have soap, washing liquid... 73 00:06:56,340 --> 00:06:58,060 And some bread for your mother 74 00:06:58,340 --> 00:07:01,240 Oh, how beautiful... Open it and eat it 75 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:03,748 She says that we should open it and eat... 76 00:07:03,772 --> 00:07:06,200 No, no, no, it's for you. It's not for us... 77 00:07:06,300 --> 00:07:07,380 We have already eaten 78 00:07:07,460 --> 00:07:08,720 - And this is for the cat 79 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:11,208 - Fish, sausage and lots of other things that need 80 00:07:11,232 --> 00:07:13,620 to be kept in the fridge A tasty sausage for you 81 00:07:13,700 --> 00:07:18,240 Oh, my sweethearts... Oh my God... 82 00:07:18,900 --> 00:07:20,300 There's some pasta too 83 00:07:22,260 --> 00:07:24,780 And lots of those... it needs to go the freezer... 84 00:07:25,020 --> 00:07:28,420 This should be kept in the freezer 85 00:07:29,100 --> 00:07:33,600 Pancakes and dumplings filled with meat 86 00:07:35,260 --> 00:07:37,740 So that you don't forget, this is how it works 87 00:07:37,740 --> 00:07:39,700 Like this, it's on 88 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:42,120 And once again. This big button here 89 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:43,880 - Oh... yes, I see, I see, I see... 90 00:07:45,380 --> 00:07:47,380 (laughing) How nice! 91 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:50,880 Let's put it on your table... 92 00:07:51,100 --> 00:07:52,580 That's a nice one! 93 00:07:53,500 --> 00:07:55,820 - Should it be like this or should we fold it? 94 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:57,620 - It's fine as it is now... 95 00:07:58,300 --> 00:08:03,820 Or maybe here... no, it's fine. You've done a good job... 96 00:08:07,580 --> 00:08:09,260 It works 97 00:08:09,620 --> 00:08:12,640 - This is how they built it... 98 00:08:13,220 --> 00:08:15,220 - Yes, maybe the electricity is on... 99 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:21,500 The problem is here, because it's attached to each other... 100 00:08:21,500 --> 00:08:24,500 We should switch the mains off and take a look at the wires. 101 00:08:24,500 --> 00:08:28,580 I suppose that they got loose, after all that moving. 102 00:08:28,620 --> 00:08:30,620 Be careful, don't get electrocuted! 103 00:08:32,940 --> 00:08:36,580 You said that you didn't have a clock, and the other one is broken so... 104 00:08:36,580 --> 00:08:38,240 - You said that you had no clock 105 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:39,980 - A clock... 106 00:08:39,980 --> 00:08:41,300 - So we bought one for you 107 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:42,520 - Oh God... 108 00:08:42,780 --> 00:08:45,620 - Does it have a hanger or... 109 00:08:45,680 --> 00:08:48,260 - We'll hang it up - Just tell us where you want it 110 00:08:48,340 --> 00:08:50,740 - Tell us where you want it and we'll hang it up 111 00:08:50,740 --> 00:08:52,220 - Oh, maybe here... 112 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:55,880 Oh, it's good like that 113 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:59,060 - Can you see it well? - It's good 114 00:09:01,180 --> 00:09:03,448 Look, it's shaky - Maybe a little bit more? 115 00:09:03,472 --> 00:09:04,600 Yes, a little... 116 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:06,280 - I will pay you for that 117 00:09:06,300 --> 00:09:09,580 - She says that she wants to pay - No, no way. It's a gift for you 118 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:11,640 - This is a gift. For you. 119 00:09:12,620 --> 00:09:14,620 - A little bit higher please 120 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:16,300 - A bit 121 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:21,420 Good... 122 00:09:21,420 --> 00:09:22,780 Yes, it's good like that... 123 00:09:22,820 --> 00:09:25,140 - It's fine, isn't it? - Yes! It's fine! 124 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:27,160 We can put it even higher if you want to 125 00:09:27,220 --> 00:09:31,040 - If it's needed, we can put it higher... - No, just leave it as it is now... 126 00:09:32,660 --> 00:09:36,560 - I could use a jacket... 127 00:09:36,560 --> 00:09:38,400 ... with buttons 128 00:09:39,700 --> 00:09:43,259 I'd buy one myself... Because it bothers me that I don't have it... 129 00:09:43,283 --> 00:09:47,220 But we never go anywhere and nobody brought anything... (for us to buy) 130 00:09:48,680 --> 00:09:52,160 - This one is slightly bigger... This one is good... 131 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:53,900 You can roll up your sleeves 132 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:57,040 - Oh... this one is good! - Yes, this one is good 133 00:09:57,040 --> 00:09:58,660 As if it were made just for you 134 00:09:58,700 --> 00:10:00,600 - Oh... it's like a cloak... 135 00:10:00,620 --> 00:10:03,180 Some water... a bucket or two. And firewood... 136 00:10:03,180 --> 00:10:05,320 Right, so we'll bring this and... 137 00:10:08,020 --> 00:10:10,020 We'll bring you some 138 00:10:11,180 --> 00:10:13,180 - Oh, poor you... 139 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:14,940 No problem 140 00:11:20,680 --> 00:11:26,040 - We got evacuated in 1986, but I returned in 1987... We spent there one year 141 00:11:26,460 --> 00:11:30,200 - When did you realize, after the evacuation, that there was no coming back? 142 00:11:31,340 --> 00:11:33,740 - Well... we knew it right away 143 00:11:33,740 --> 00:11:36,840 And then nobody stayed here 144 00:11:37,100 --> 00:11:40,800 And we went away... Then they looted the farm here.... 145 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:45,780 I worked here at the farm for 10 years. With pigs. 146 00:11:46,060 --> 00:11:52,180 And the girls... I mean Hania... and Tania... and Sonia Bezwiercha 147 00:11:52,660 --> 00:11:56,860 They worked together with me... And it was good... 148 00:11:56,880 --> 00:12:01,180 Initially, there were 50 people... And now there are 15 of us 149 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:03,320 Baba Hania there... Marusia there 150 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:09,340 We're all scattered here. It's not so easy to go and visit each other... 151 00:12:09,340 --> 00:12:12,960 They never opened some houses here in the area 152 00:12:13,060 --> 00:12:16,980 And I wasn't doing well at all... 153 00:12:17,180 --> 00:12:21,320 One day I will die, nobody will come and I'll be lying here and stinking (laughter) 154 00:12:21,380 --> 00:12:24,580 - What happened to your leg? 155 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:28,880 - What should I say... I don't really know... 156 00:12:28,900 --> 00:12:33,820 After my first surgery... I stayed at the hospital in Chernobyl 157 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:41,980 They ran some tests, did an X-ray and they said that they needed to operate 158 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:49,104 I don't know... When I was working with the pigs. One day there 159 00:12:49,128 --> 00:12:53,100 was a storm, they pigs were outside, and I opened the door 160 00:12:54,560 --> 00:12:58,300 The pigs started running, and one boar hit me... 161 00:12:58,300 --> 00:12:59,440 Right here 162 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:02,066 Bloody bastard... The boys who worked there came, 163 00:13:02,090 --> 00:13:05,100 picked me up and took me to the hospital in Chernobyl 164 00:13:05,100 --> 00:13:08,440 And probably this is when something got damaged there 165 00:13:09,540 --> 00:13:13,520 I have a problem with my joint too... Look, I can't raise my leg 166 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:17,480 I can lift the right one, but this one won't go 167 00:13:17,740 --> 00:13:20,520 There are some degenerative changes in it 168 00:13:20,580 --> 00:13:24,580 When I injured my ankle, it was so bad that it needed to be tied in three places 169 00:13:24,620 --> 00:13:27,900 - How do you spend your days? From morning to night? 170 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:29,540 - Oh, my boy... 171 00:13:29,820 --> 00:13:32,508 Back in the day I'd do laundry... When I came 172 00:13:32,532 --> 00:13:35,220 back from the hospital, I cleaned everything... 173 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:41,340 When it rained, I'd put some buckets out, to catch some rainwater 174 00:13:41,340 --> 00:13:44,100 Because there's nobody who could bring me some water... 175 00:13:44,220 --> 00:13:49,220 Well... my cousin does it sometimes. She visits me every couple of days 176 00:13:49,220 --> 00:13:51,220 Last time I saw her was 2 days ago... 177 00:13:51,220 --> 00:13:52,980 Maybe she'll come tomorrow 178 00:13:53,180 --> 00:13:56,400 For the rest... I don't do anything. What is there to do, anyway? 179 00:13:56,460 --> 00:13:57,620 I have no cows 180 00:13:57,620 --> 00:14:01,840 Cats and crows keep me company (laughter) 181 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:06,240 - Would you like people to come and visit you more often? 182 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:08,724 - Oh, I'd love that so much... If they only could 183 00:14:08,748 --> 00:14:10,940 bring me some bread, if anyone could come... 184 00:14:12,020 --> 00:14:13,680 - How often? - Often... 185 00:14:13,820 --> 00:14:17,260 And I was so sad, that nobody visits me here... (laughter) 186 00:14:19,780 --> 00:14:23,000 And if somebody comes, we are all so happy 187 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:25,280 that somebody came... 188 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:27,280 And now it's getting hard to live here 189 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:33,000 I have enough food for one month... it's good that there's at least a foodtruck 190 00:14:33,260 --> 00:14:38,340 (Bread) once for two weeks, it gets stale very quickly 191 00:14:38,620 --> 00:14:43,080 So, I'm happy that there's food... there was no bread here 192 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:48,560 Oh, God... it's been 7 years since I went to a store 193 00:14:48,620 --> 00:14:51,720 They left me here... 194 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:54,620 There's nobody, no children... 195 00:14:54,860 --> 00:14:59,240 I'd like to thank you... and wish you good health for the years to come 196 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:01,460 I hope you will come again 197 00:15:01,460 --> 00:15:05,060 May God help you (cries) 198 00:15:11,420 --> 00:15:12,553 Thank you! See you! 199 00:15:12,577 --> 00:15:15,700 Best wishes! May God protect you, my children... 200 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:32,960 - Good morning! - Good morning... 201 00:15:37,220 --> 00:15:41,993 We've brought you flashlights... A bigger one and a smaller one... 202 00:15:42,017 --> 00:15:43,600 Oh, thank you! 203 00:15:44,140 --> 00:15:48,140 - Here's the switch... - Oh, good... fine... yes... 204 00:15:55,220 --> 00:15:56,300 Here, here, here... 205 00:15:56,300 --> 00:15:58,360 We've spent our entire lives here.... 206 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:02,020 Well, I'd sometimes go places, but my mother spent her entire life here 207 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:05,780 Do you know how hard it was for her, when we were being evacuated? 208 00:16:05,820 --> 00:16:08,240 - What do you remember from that day? How was it? 209 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:15,040 - That very day, when it happened, I was in Kyiv... I knew about nothing 210 00:16:15,300 --> 00:16:20,780 - Until the buses came... - Yes... - And they were taking people away 211 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:30,140 - Yes... We came here on May 29th... Wait! April 29th... 212 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:35,280 And on May 4th we had to leave 213 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:42,740 We helped our parents here... But we didn't take anything with us 214 00:16:42,860 --> 00:16:50,440 - My landowner stayed at his base because he had animals, they were loading them... 215 00:16:50,460 --> 00:16:54,648 They didn't take me away. I was a crane operator so, after the 216 00:16:54,672 --> 00:16:59,480 disaster, we were transferred to Kyiv, by a hydroplane boat "Meteor" 217 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:03,100 They examined us and sent us to Chernobyl, first thing in the morning. 218 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:06,620 - They sent you here right after the disaster? 219 00:17:07,380 --> 00:17:11,560 - Yes, immediately. We were sent to work here on May 1st 220 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:14,880 There were trucks spraying the streets with water... 221 00:17:15,060 --> 00:17:17,060 They sprayed the houses, streets... 222 00:17:17,180 --> 00:17:19,700 They'd do it 2-3 times per day... 223 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:26,080 It was at night... I was in charge then and they called us that there was an emergency 224 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:31,660 They rounded everyone up and we started preparing solutions with iodine 225 00:17:31,860 --> 00:17:34,420 - It was here, right? - In Poliske, at the pharmacy 226 00:17:34,540 --> 00:17:40,108 We were making lots of things... Solutions with iodine, for 227 00:17:40,132 --> 00:17:45,700 the thyroid... and then we'd bring those kits to Pripyat 228 00:17:45,740 --> 00:17:49,560 Straight away, during the first night (after the disaster) 229 00:17:49,660 --> 00:17:52,480 Initially, they told us "You'll be gone for 4 days" 230 00:17:52,500 --> 00:17:55,223 And they said not to take anything with us, apart from 231 00:17:55,247 --> 00:17:57,820 our sheets because we might have to sleep outside. 232 00:17:58,460 --> 00:18:02,380 They brought us at night, so I went to Kyiv... 233 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:06,098 At night, they put us all in the cars and took us where 234 00:18:06,122 --> 00:18:09,740 the government told them to... Oh, that was terrible... 235 00:18:10,180 --> 00:18:14,120 They started rounding people up... There came buses from Pripyat, with kids and 236 00:18:14,144 --> 00:18:18,380 whole families... They started evacuating people. They brought them here, to Poliske 237 00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:24,800 At night, my wife would pick those people up and would relocate them... 238 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:29,020 People helped as they could. We put up 2 families. 239 00:18:29,180 --> 00:18:32,820 When they relocated us... I was a crane operator 240 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:35,088 At that time, the harbors in Kyiv and the one 241 00:18:35,112 --> 00:18:37,260 that was ours were owned by the same company 242 00:18:37,260 --> 00:18:39,380 There it was Kyiv and here - Chernobyl... 243 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:42,000 So they gave us an apartment in Kyiv 244 00:18:42,120 --> 00:18:47,180 Whoever used to own a house, was to receive a two-bedroom flat. 245 00:18:47,340 --> 00:18:50,260 But well, at that time, we received a one-bedroom flat 246 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:55,700 But after one year... no... after two years, they gave us another one. 247 00:18:55,820 --> 00:19:00,647 I mean, we were removed from here… and they gave us an apartment in Osokorki 248 00:19:00,671 --> 00:19:05,240 area... So, we stayed in Kyiv and lived at the Institute of Chemistry 249 00:19:05,300 --> 00:19:07,940 One-bedroom flat on the 7th floor 250 00:19:08,100 --> 00:19:12,660 And then they gave us a bigger flat, also in Kyiv, a little bit further away. 251 00:19:12,780 --> 00:19:15,440 They would come and ask: "Where would you like to go?" 252 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:17,360 And I said: "My good people - nowhere!" 253 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:21,400 "How's that!? Don't you know!? People will be dying here!" 254 00:19:21,460 --> 00:19:25,560 They will be crawling on the ground, nobody will come and pick them up... 255 00:19:25,860 --> 00:19:30,168 And how will it be there where you are taking me... I 256 00:19:30,192 --> 00:19:34,500 said... "What will be, will be! I'm not going anywhere" 257 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:38,240 When it comes to dying... The best place to die is my own home. 258 00:19:38,420 --> 00:19:40,400 Aren't you afraid of the radiation? 259 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:44,800 You know, we didn't know about anything… And we should've known… 260 00:19:44,900 --> 00:19:48,100 The dust landed on those tall buildings... 261 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:54,800 In Kyiv, to be specific... on those skyscrapers 262 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:57,120 All this radiation settled down... 263 00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:00,920 That's where... my sister's son lived... 264 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:02,920 My sister is already dead... 265 00:20:03,140 --> 00:20:09,060 And he said to me: "Aunt Alla, there's more radiation in our fridge... 266 00:20:10,140 --> 00:20:13,700 ...than where you live, in Poliske!" 267 00:20:14,420 --> 00:20:19,260 So we came, and they were unloading the waste from the coal stoves... 268 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:25,798 and before you reached the canteen on the three-storey boat, you 269 00:20:25,822 --> 00:20:32,100 had to be checked. There was a man measuring the radiation levels. 270 00:20:32,180 --> 00:20:34,420 And he would say: "Oh, you're contaminated!" 271 00:20:34,420 --> 00:20:37,078 What to do now? He took a broom and scratched that... 272 00:20:37,102 --> 00:20:39,860 ...person with it. "Come in!" The radiation was gone... 273 00:20:39,940 --> 00:20:42,540 - And what do you think? Why did they relocate you? 274 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:45,608 Well... so... well as they say: "One goes to war, and 275 00:20:45,632 --> 00:20:48,480 some other stays with his mother" (Russian proverb) 276 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:54,788 That's how it was in different situations... There are 277 00:20:54,812 --> 00:21:00,840 uranium ores here - that's what they said in 1973-74 278 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:09,040 There was an airport here, operating on two routes: Kyiv - Chernobyl, Kyiv - Poliske 279 00:21:09,120 --> 00:21:14,960 So, well, when the geologists were examining the soil, from a helicopter, 280 00:21:15,060 --> 00:21:22,420 as they were expecting to find some uranium ores, right at the surface 281 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:26,520 I still have a newspaper with an article about it. If I find it, you can have it 282 00:21:26,580 --> 00:21:29,900 There was a sewage pumping station here 283 00:21:29,940 --> 00:21:34,000 They would pump water, drain swamps... Oh, there were canals here too... 284 00:21:34,060 --> 00:21:37,600 They would pump this water into the sea, to the Dnieper... 285 00:21:37,660 --> 00:21:41,380 And then the pumping station was closed down... 286 00:21:41,380 --> 00:21:44,080 At the beginning, our basement was still dry... 287 00:21:44,120 --> 00:21:48,080 But then the water levels went higher again... and water regained its terrain... 288 00:21:48,100 --> 00:21:51,780 Well... the basement started getting wet... 289 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:55,420 All the food that we placed there... it was... 290 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:57,380 ...all gone. 291 00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:01,760 And here everything was overgrown! But, apart from that, nobody came here 292 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:06,000 But here, behind our hut, lived our aunt. 293 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:07,940 Their house was buried. 294 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:15,560 There came bulldozers, dug it out, tore it down and buried it... That's it. 295 00:22:15,780 --> 00:22:17,780 We had a nice life... 296 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:25,820 Sometimes a car would come. Totally filled with gas bottles. 297 00:22:27,300 --> 00:22:32,000 And they'd shout: "WHO NEEDS GAS!? WHO NEEDS GAS!?" 298 00:22:32,100 --> 00:22:38,440 Anyway, Kyiv is Kyiv... And I like it here... There's a small river here... 299 00:22:38,500 --> 00:22:41,980 I would go there to go fishing. That's what brought me joy... 300 00:22:41,980 --> 00:22:44,680 But I need to be honest here. I don't eat what I catch 301 00:22:44,700 --> 00:22:47,280 There were so many cars here! 302 00:22:47,340 --> 00:22:51,100 There were lots of them... My mother lived here too. 303 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:56,109 Oh, God! So many cars. Going up and down! From Chernobyl, to 304 00:22:56,133 --> 00:23:01,580 Chernobyl.... bringing people to work... They spent so much money... 305 00:23:01,660 --> 00:23:03,760 - Some of them would go to their duties... 306 00:23:03,780 --> 00:23:05,920 - And they brought so many goods! 307 00:23:05,980 --> 00:23:12,160 - That road was so busy... as many as 70 buses... 308 00:23:12,580 --> 00:23:19,340 - On both sides of the road... - Yes, they would go up and down! 309 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:23,240 - Well... and I used to mow the grass for the cows, across the road ... 310 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:26,160 Because we had cows... 311 00:23:26,580 --> 00:23:29,860 And then it was all gone .... 312 00:23:31,220 --> 00:23:35,400 - If there only were some hope... that there'd be some life here... 313 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:39,040 If only they started building something here... 314 00:23:39,140 --> 00:23:42,600 But it is the way it is...Life goes by... 315 00:23:43,100 --> 00:23:44,900 And that's it... 316 00:23:46,100 --> 00:23:48,800 We try to make the best of what we have... 317 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:54,480 - This is what he looked like last year... - Well, yes (laughter) 318 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:55,960 - Haha, he got old! 319 00:23:55,960 --> 00:24:00,100 - But the mug is still the same... - Only you didn't get old, babushka... 320 00:24:00,180 --> 00:24:04,120 - The same uniform - Look at my hair, how long it was... 321 00:24:04,540 --> 00:24:06,540 Attention. Done 322 00:24:07,060 --> 00:24:09,960 Let's see what it's like 323 00:24:10,540 --> 00:24:11,820 We look good here 324 00:24:11,900 --> 00:24:13,940 I'm like a monkey 325 00:24:15,100 --> 00:24:17,200 - Best wishes and may you live 200 years! 326 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,860 - Goodbye! We'll visit you again! - Oh... oh... 327 00:24:21,420 --> 00:24:25,480 - Come and give me a hug... - Thank you... Thank you! 328 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:30,040 - All right boys, let's go to sleep... 329 00:24:30,300 --> 00:24:33,640 - Wait for us because we'll come again. Thank you! Best wishes! 330 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:58,320 We've brought lots of bread 331 00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:02,780 Sausage, some milk... It's all for you... And those detergents too. 332 00:25:02,900 --> 00:25:05,100 Oh gosh, thank you so much for everything... 333 00:25:05,420 --> 00:25:06,500 - Not at all! 334 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:11,060 - Cheers! "It's not for pleasure, but to stay healthy!" 335 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:19,440 - Where are you going? - I'm taking you to Marusia... 336 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:20,700 - We've come by car... 337 00:25:20,700 --> 00:25:24,220 Oh, it's not far away. You can go by car, and we'll walk with the lady 338 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:26,580 - Good day! - Good day! 339 00:25:27,620 --> 00:25:29,820 - It's your door [the other babushka's house] 340 00:25:29,860 --> 00:25:31,500 We have lots of things for you 341 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:34,548 - Some detergents... Some jar lids, gardening 342 00:25:34,572 --> 00:25:37,520 gloves... for when you have to work outside 343 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:38,698 Thank you... 344 00:25:38,722 --> 00:25:41,240 Matches, washing powder, soap... And this is tinder 345 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:44,618 We didn't know what it was... When I visited Olga, she showed it 346 00:25:44,642 --> 00:25:47,980 to me and we'd smell it and lick it, to see what it was (laughter) 347 00:25:48,060 --> 00:25:49,960 - Thank you, children... thank you... 348 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:52,778 This is for babushka Hania. Could you give her 349 00:25:52,802 --> 00:25:55,620 this picture? I forgot to give it to her... 350 00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:59,260 - Yes, sure I'll give it to her... - Oh, and this is for you 351 00:25:59,420 --> 00:26:02,740 - I was here with you... how many years ago...? (laughter) 352 00:26:02,780 --> 00:26:03,863 Thank you! 353 00:26:03,887 --> 00:26:07,060 May God be with you! Thank you so much! Thank you, children.... 354 00:26:24,900 --> 00:26:26,900 - Good evening! 355 00:26:28,420 --> 00:26:31,980 - Ooh! A flashlight! I was about to ask you for one! 356 00:26:31,980 --> 00:26:33,680 - Because I have none now 357 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:35,200 It's a very good flashlight 358 00:26:38,500 --> 00:26:41,580 - Oh, thank you... - And this is from the regular customers... 359 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,040 If he doesn't open, we'll leave his gifts at your place. 360 00:26:45,140 --> 00:26:50,180 - Or put it in his shed. Nobody goes there, even cats and dogs avoid that place 361 00:26:50,220 --> 00:26:52,180 - Oh.. I know where it is 362 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:54,000 How is he doing? 363 00:26:54,020 --> 00:26:57,440 - His arms are still strong, Krystian... He chops his own firewood 364 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:00,720 - Oh, really!? By himself? - Yes! But his legs are weak... 365 00:27:01,020 --> 00:27:03,200 He uses two walking sticks. 366 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:05,340 - Good evening! 367 00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:10,540 We'll change the bulb, you'll have more light 368 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:12,800 Where's the bulb? 369 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:15,320 We'll give you a new one... 370 00:27:15,700 --> 00:27:17,700 Fine then... 371 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,140 This one is new 372 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:25,460 And here... some cat food, because you have many cats 373 00:27:25,700 --> 00:27:26,783 What is this? 374 00:27:26,807 --> 00:27:29,480 This... for the cats - Oh... for the cats.... 375 00:27:29,540 --> 00:27:31,020 Oh, there's one over there 376 00:27:31,020 --> 00:27:34,920 - The cats went somewhere outside!... - No, they are here... 377 00:27:34,980 --> 00:27:37,240 - Kitty! Kitty! Kitty! Kitty! 378 00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:44,460 There are two of them 379 00:27:44,580 --> 00:27:46,680 And I have... 380 00:27:47,180 --> 00:27:48,620 ...five in total 381 00:27:49,780 --> 00:27:54,160 Maybe they are outside... there's some she-cat out there... 382 00:27:54,220 --> 00:27:56,220 It's possible, I haven't seen any... 383 00:27:56,540 --> 00:27:58,020 The photo... 384 00:27:58,020 --> 00:28:01,000 - It's you, right? - Yees.... 385 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,020 As you can see... 386 00:28:08,360 --> 00:28:09,880 My fingers... 387 00:28:12,700 --> 00:28:15,000 Are weak... 388 00:28:16,260 --> 00:28:20,000 They don't work properly... that's it... 389 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:24,340 - Like this. Oh, on the count of three... maybe four (laughter) 390 00:28:27,260 --> 00:28:31,660 - Is it going to shine like that? - That's the best way! 391 00:28:37,340 --> 00:28:39,860 There's somebody shining outside... 392 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:43,020 Those are our people. We'll bring you a new axe. 393 00:28:45,580 --> 00:28:52,860 - He needs to mind his forehead... because he's tall... 394 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,840 - Sir, look how sharp it is! - It's very sharp! Just be careful... 395 00:28:56,980 --> 00:29:00,940 - It's sharp, you have to be careful... Not to chop your fingers off 396 00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,840 - It's a Polish one, right? - Yes, it is... 397 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:10,180 - It's for you, you can keep it... 398 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:12,500 From Poland... 399 00:29:12,500 --> 00:29:14,240 A gift? 400 00:29:14,860 --> 00:29:17,220 Thank you! Thank you! 401 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:20,120 - Don't mention it! - How's that!? 402 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:22,680 But what about the axe? - It's just a gift for you! 403 00:29:22,700 --> 00:29:24,700 So you're giving it to me (laughter) 404 00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:27,740 - Food...? How's that? 405 00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:31,880 - Yes, just take a look, sir. Milk, sausage... Bread... 406 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,360 - Bread too? - Yes, bread! 407 00:29:34,700 --> 00:29:38,820 Thank you so much! So, so much! 408 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:43,900 I wish you lots of good luck! 409 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:45,960 Whole lot of good luck! 410 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:47,860 - We wish you the same too! 411 00:29:47,940 --> 00:29:55,500 - Me? Who cares? I'm old... I don't have much time left... 412 00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,780 - You're not that old... You're young at heart! 413 00:30:00,140 --> 00:30:02,420 - Oh... well... you're right! 414 00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:15,840 Yes, the boys need to go... 415 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:18,580 I would like to say... 416 00:30:18,700 --> 00:30:23,660 Mom, the boys need to go... Wait a bit... 417 00:30:23,900 --> 00:30:25,860 - There was a girl standing outside... 418 00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:31,320 And the boy said to that girl... it's an old song... a sad one 419 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:35,900 Farewell, my dear girl, One day I will return! 420 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:40,160 And when they put me in a dark grave, I will be yours forever. 421 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:44,760 She waited and waited, Years went by, and the boy didn't come 422 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:49,240 She made a small altar for him, Has he departed from his earthly path? 423 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:54,020 He will never come back again, As he died in a bloody battle. 424 00:30:54,140 --> 00:30:58,460 Good people buried him, In a far and foreign land… 425 00:30:58,580 --> 00:31:03,320 A Cossack was coming back, Apparently, by mistake 426 00:31:03,420 --> 00:31:08,020 He was rushing to see his girl Who forgot about his love... 427 00:31:08,540 --> 00:31:12,080 And.... and.... I don't remember the rest... - (laughter) 428 00:31:12,260 --> 00:31:14,620 I will just sing it to myself 429 00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:19,500 My elder brother died during the war. He was born in 1922 430 00:31:19,940 --> 00:31:22,100 And my mother was denied pension 431 00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:26,280 I went to fight for it, to no avail... 432 00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:29,220 There was a major, Yablokov 433 00:31:29,420 --> 00:31:32,520 And he said to me: "Who can prove that he died!?" 434 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,778 And I replied that, indeed, I never experienced war but 435 00:31:35,802 --> 00:31:38,860 I knew very well how our army would attack and retreat... 436 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:42,840 The first time, the Germans entered this area without firing a single bullet 437 00:31:42,940 --> 00:31:45,840 They entered Chernobyl on bicycles, with their guns 438 00:31:45,940 --> 00:31:53,780 Yes, I was still a baby, I was 13... In 1941... 439 00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:58,060 They came here to the river... 440 00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:06,740 And I came closer to look... all that technology, the pontoon bridge... 441 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:13,000 And cars that could drive on any surface... 442 00:32:13,060 --> 00:32:15,560 We also had tanks here. 443 00:32:15,700 --> 00:32:19,900 So I thought that I would go and look at the tanks 444 00:32:20,220 --> 00:32:24,420 I came closer and I saw a soldier with a rifle. 445 00:32:24,980 --> 00:32:27,940 I came even closer. "DON'T DO IT BOY! DON'T COME HERE!" 446 00:32:27,980 --> 00:32:31,020 And there was a machine gun, covered with a piece of plywood 447 00:32:31,020 --> 00:32:33,380 And they just went forward, for Stalin... 448 00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:39,980 During the war… When they people were dying or got killed 449 00:32:40,300 --> 00:32:43,700 They would transport corpses on horse-drawn carts… 450 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:47,880 - Of course, many died at the front, especially men… 451 00:32:48,100 --> 00:32:54,160 - It was a small village, but we had 72 casualties… 452 00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:59,540 My father was killed… And my brother was hanged… 453 00:33:00,620 --> 00:33:02,280 - In Vienna… - In Germany... 454 00:33:02,380 --> 00:33:04,380 - No, not in Germany… He was in Vienna… 455 00:33:04,420 --> 00:33:06,480 - No idea, but they took him to Germany! 456 00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:10,640 - Yes, to Germany, but then he went to Vienna, to work in a factory 457 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:16,280 - When they took him the first time, He managed to escape… He was born in 1923… 458 00:33:17,420 --> 00:33:19,800 He hadn't been in the army yet 459 00:33:20,180 --> 00:33:27,100 And when he escaped, they signed me up instead, to do forced labor in Germany. 460 00:33:27,300 --> 00:33:32,440 My father pulled some strings, so that I wouldn't have to go… 461 00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:37,140 We came back home, in the middle of the night… 462 00:33:37,340 --> 00:33:44,640 And I had to hide at home. And he was at home too – after he escaped. 463 00:33:44,780 --> 00:33:47,300 And he said to our mother: „Mom! 464 00:33:47,300 --> 00:33:50,940 If she goes to Germany, it will be too late...They will kill her there!” 465 00:33:51,180 --> 00:33:54,040 And so he went... He went... 466 00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:59,035 He would send us... postcards, not letters but such postcards 467 00:33:59,059 --> 00:34:01,000 I still have them... 468 00:34:01,100 --> 00:34:03,100 But I left them in Kyiv 469 00:34:03,260 --> 00:34:08,360 - And he would write that there, on the field, where I would pick mushrooms... 470 00:34:08,500 --> 00:34:12,320 ...there was a frontline 471 00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:16,153 - That's where they were crossing the Dnieper... 472 00:34:16,177 --> 00:34:19,380 When they were marching from Belarus... 473 00:34:19,500 --> 00:34:21,700 They marched forward and shouted: 474 00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:25,660 "For the fatherland! For Stalin! Hooray! Hooray! 475 00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:32,760 They stayed in the forest... That's where they fought and shot... 476 00:34:35,020 --> 00:34:38,039 And he would write in those letters... or 477 00:34:38,063 --> 00:34:41,840 postcards, that he worked in a furniture factory 478 00:34:42,220 --> 00:34:47,100 And that they made the same furniture as what we had here on our field 479 00:34:47,100 --> 00:34:50,508 The war was in full swing, bombs would fall... He worked in some 480 00:34:50,532 --> 00:34:53,940 military factory, but it was forbidden to mention it openly... 481 00:34:53,980 --> 00:34:56,920 He would only send us those postcards... 482 00:34:57,020 --> 00:34:59,140 - Oh, this big they were... I have them... 483 00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,300 Yes... But they hanged him... 484 00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:06,600 There was an underground organization 485 00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:11,740 Because there were also other people from our village 486 00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:14,780 And when they came back, they told us... 487 00:35:14,780 --> 00:35:20,540 ...that they carried him outside and they hanged him in the presence of everyone... 488 00:35:22,460 --> 00:35:25,320 - There is one more thing... 489 00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:30,720 Our village experienced some war activity 490 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:34,392 Yes, just like Khatyn... Where they shot people, would 491 00:35:34,416 --> 00:35:37,680 lock them up in the houses and burn them alive... 492 00:35:38,260 --> 00:35:40,120 The Germans were here at that time... 493 00:35:40,180 --> 00:35:43,880 I went to school... I was a first-grade pupil when the Germans entered... 494 00:35:43,900 --> 00:35:46,178 And they burned the school down... they burned 495 00:35:46,202 --> 00:35:48,300 everything... They left nothing behind... 496 00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:50,460 They took us to Chernobyl 497 00:35:50,540 --> 00:35:54,540 For some time we were kept at the school over there. Somehow we managed to escape 498 00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:58,040 And some of us had to go to Germany, to do forced labor 499 00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:00,453 They would burn people and the entire village... 500 00:36:00,477 --> 00:36:02,800 they would shoot people dead... for nothing. 501 00:36:02,860 --> 00:36:06,620 My father was at war, just like my brother... And I stayed with my mother... 502 00:36:06,620 --> 00:36:08,540 And I survived. 503 00:36:08,540 --> 00:36:10,320 The frontline was not far from here 504 00:36:10,380 --> 00:36:12,820 They were crossing the river... The Dnieper... 505 00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:17,420 They would fire their automatic rifles, carbines... 506 00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:21,020 We've had our share of misery during the war! 507 00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:25,760 And nobody came to us, we were left to our own devices... 508 00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:28,028 They suffered a lot during the war, but the 509 00:36:28,052 --> 00:36:30,240 government didn't grant them any reparations 510 00:36:30,240 --> 00:36:35,920 People died at the frontline... In the Finnish War... the Great Patriotic War... 511 00:36:35,940 --> 00:36:39,100 Many people died in Ukraine... 7 million 512 00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:42,000 7 million died... 513 00:36:42,060 --> 00:36:46,260 And they tried to turn us and the Poles against each other... 514 00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:49,120 Poland and Ukraine are not guilty... It's their fault... 515 00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:50,980 They tried to divide us 516 00:36:51,060 --> 00:36:52,920 It's Stalin's fault 517 00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:54,840 He murdered so many people... 518 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:56,920 So many... 519 00:36:57,660 --> 00:37:02,040 Poland suffered by him too... we all suffered... 520 00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,380 You and us, we all suffered 521 00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:06,780 Now they turn us against each other again... 522 00:37:06,780 --> 00:37:08,988 We aren't guilty, Poland isn't guilty. Nobody 523 00:37:09,012 --> 00:37:11,220 is guilty. They are the ones who are guilty! 524 00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:15,580 The did this on purpose 525 00:37:16,100 --> 00:37:21,280 And during the war... They came here once again in 1943 526 00:37:21,420 --> 00:37:24,178 There were 5 soldiers in the house... The sixth one was 527 00:37:24,202 --> 00:37:26,860 a soldier too - but he was Jewish. I didn't know that 528 00:37:26,980 --> 00:37:31,020 And he asked: Listen, did they kill Jews here? 529 00:37:31,140 --> 00:37:34,200 I said: Well, yes. They did... 530 00:37:35,380 --> 00:37:39,788 Where I went to school, there were Jews too... but those 531 00:37:39,812 --> 00:37:44,220 were poor ones, who hadn't left. And Germans killed them 532 00:37:44,340 --> 00:37:48,320 There is a street there... International Street 533 00:37:48,500 --> 00:37:56,920 And we went there. And it was early December ...or late November... 534 00:37:58,060 --> 00:38:03,160 ... and we had a neighbour. And his father, during the German occupation, was a mayor 535 00:38:03,660 --> 00:38:07,340 And he said: "Let's go and see them shoot Jews dead"... 536 00:38:07,340 --> 00:38:08,520 It was in 1943 537 00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:12,120 And when I reached International Street... 538 00:38:12,860 --> 00:38:15,035 I saw my friend on a cart, passing me by. He 539 00:38:15,059 --> 00:38:17,540 was waving at me and shouting "Lonia! Goodbye!" 540 00:38:17,740 --> 00:38:20,760 I couldn't help him... 541 00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:25,680 How could I help him, where should I take him? I was 13... 542 00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:35,200 And that one Jew got angry: why didn't you take him anywhere? 543 00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:38,180 Where should I've taken him? I was just a boy... 544 00:38:38,580 --> 00:38:41,140 13 years old! Where could I take him and put him up? 545 00:38:41,180 --> 00:38:43,180 So they took them and shot them dead... 546 00:38:43,240 --> 00:38:45,819 How many were killed... I don't know but people say 547 00:38:45,843 --> 00:38:48,560 that it was 500 people. Is it the truth - I don't know 548 00:40:36,700 --> 00:40:38,700 Where's the wood? 549 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:41,140 - Right there... - Good, let's go... 550 00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:45,640 - No, dear Krystian... this is not what you came for... 551 00:40:45,720 --> 00:40:48,360 Hi Mukhtar! You recognize me? 552 00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:54,380 We came here to give, not to take, so... 553 00:40:54,860 --> 00:40:58,140 - No! It's me whot took from you... 554 00:40:58,580 --> 00:41:00,760 You didn't take anything. It was a gift 555 00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:02,960 - Oh, thank you so much... 556 00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:08,840 A gift... from Natasha 557 00:41:08,940 --> 00:41:11,500 - From Natasha... - Yes! - Thank you... 558 00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:16,860 This is another gift for you. There was another girl, Małgosia... 559 00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:19,320 She remembers you too 560 00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:23,500 - How can I do anything in return... I am so happy... 561 00:41:25,240 --> 00:41:28,880 No need to cry! Many people in Poland remember you 562 00:41:29,620 --> 00:41:32,428 - Strangers [remember me]... Krystian, how 563 00:41:32,452 --> 00:41:35,260 should I not cry, when I'm all alone here... 564 00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:37,120 - But we remember you 565 00:41:37,300 --> 00:41:39,640 - But I... you know... 566 00:41:40,100 --> 00:41:41,160 Good morning! 567 00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:44,593 We have some things here... Take whatever you need. 568 00:41:44,617 --> 00:41:45,740 Thank you. 569 00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:48,800 You can put Paracetamol inside 570 00:41:49,260 --> 00:41:53,540 Thank you all... for what you do... 571 00:41:53,620 --> 00:41:56,620 As you can see, there are almost only elderly people here... 572 00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:59,118 There should be some organization that would 573 00:41:59,142 --> 00:42:01,620 take care of the people here... oh well... 574 00:42:02,820 --> 00:42:07,880 - But nobody comes... - Well... maybe some social workers... 575 00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:13,200 I am really grateful that you don't forget about me... 576 00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:15,160 We hope that you like it 577 00:42:15,240 --> 00:42:21,400 - Oh, sure I like it! May God give health to all those who remember us... 578 00:42:21,700 --> 00:42:24,840 Yes, they do and they help us... 579 00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:29,780 It's good that somebody comes to visit her. She can't go anywhere on her own 580 00:42:29,980 --> 00:42:34,140 And the pension of 1000-1800 Ukrainian Hryvni [33-59 Euros]... It's next to nothing! 581 00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:36,120 It's like tears and not a real pension 582 00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:42,860 I saw it on TV... The ministers earn 2 million each 583 00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:47,000 Maybe they are good people... but they don't have conscience... 584 00:42:47,100 --> 00:42:49,320 You have some bread here, some milk... 585 00:42:49,420 --> 00:42:52,320 - Very good! I don't have any bread anymore! 586 00:42:52,380 --> 00:42:54,040 I have no bread 587 00:43:01,240 --> 00:43:03,580 I remember you... Very well. 588 00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:08,020 You came here last winter 589 00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:12,160 And you gave me a blanket. It's so nice and warm. 590 00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:17,980 And now nobody comes here anymore... Well... Apart from you. 591 00:43:18,100 --> 00:43:20,780 You came here last year. Further, there was nobody. 592 00:43:20,900 --> 00:43:26,840 Of course, I was grateful... And I prayed... God help those people... 593 00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:28,220 Forever and ever. 594 00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:30,460 Because they help us. 595 00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:35,560 Because they understand that we live here... 596 00:43:35,720 --> 00:43:39,400 And we simply found ourselves in this situation... 597 00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:45,160 I've been praying to God for some time. I say: 598 00:43:45,420 --> 00:43:53,320 "God, protect those people, as they still have humane souls..." 599 00:43:53,500 --> 00:43:56,880 "... a tiny particle of sanctity in their souls..." 600 00:43:56,940 --> 00:44:02,740 They understand what sorrow is and that it's hard... 601 00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:11,300 And what can I do? After the surgery, I'm not so mobile anymore and I feel limited. 602 00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:14,300 Anyway, I do what I can do 603 00:44:14,500 --> 00:44:17,320 For example, I go... oh, my mistake! I walk outside, 604 00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:20,560 take my chainsaw and chop or cut some firewood. 605 00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:25,508 When it's done, I put it on a barrow and carry it back... I 606 00:44:25,532 --> 00:44:30,480 borrow the barrow from my relative who lives in the area... 607 00:44:30,700 --> 00:44:32,760 We load it and carry it, that's it 608 00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:36,240 Sometimes a friend of mine comes by car, so we put it in his car then 609 00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:38,780 And when we're back, I chop it into smaller pieces 610 00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:42,400 Anyway, I can be happy if I'm able to do it for 30 minutes... 611 00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:49,160 It says that they came to the Zone with a ballot box. The box is transparent 612 00:44:49,180 --> 00:44:52,203 And there's a picture of babushkas throwing their votes in... 613 00:44:52,227 --> 00:44:54,120 It's at babushka's place! Here! Here! 614 00:44:54,140 --> 00:44:58,380 She can be seen throwing her vote into the box 615 00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:00,929 Well, this picture is from 2012. Recently, we 616 00:45:00,953 --> 00:45:03,840 had another election and this time nobody came... 617 00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:05,920 - Good morning! 618 00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:11,320 I'm so happy! 619 00:45:16,660 --> 00:45:19,000 We have a picture for you too 620 00:45:19,260 --> 00:45:21,720 We came here last year, around the same time 621 00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:24,520 - Oh, thank you... 622 00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:26,180 - You'll remember us - Yes, yes... 623 00:45:26,220 --> 00:45:29,698 When we came here for the first time, the babushka was still alive... 624 00:45:29,722 --> 00:45:30,740 Yes, she was... 625 00:45:30,780 --> 00:45:33,280 Yes, I remember that you have very tasty honey here 626 00:45:33,380 --> 00:45:36,440 - Good old friends! - Haha! Hi! 627 00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:39,400 - Good morning! 628 00:45:39,420 --> 00:45:43,020 This is from that girl, Magdalena 629 00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:48,120 And she... wrote you a letter 630 00:45:49,180 --> 00:45:51,180 - Oh! It's her! 631 00:45:53,060 --> 00:45:55,060 - She visited me 4 times or something! 632 00:45:55,240 --> 00:45:57,740 We visit you every year with the same group 633 00:45:58,180 --> 00:46:00,340 - One year ago. Do you remember? 634 00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:11,620 - Some more bread, an oilcloth - Oh, that's a nice one 635 00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:13,400 - Tanya, come here! 636 00:46:13,460 --> 00:46:15,960 - Come on... - We have a towel... it's red and nice 637 00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:17,960 - Take it! - Oh, thank you... 638 00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:19,960 - Oh, thank you... 639 00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:22,840 - There's no winter, but still... - Thank you... 640 00:46:25,460 --> 00:46:28,550 Here you have some detergents, some tea-towels... 641 00:46:28,574 --> 00:46:29,660 Thank you... 642 00:46:29,740 --> 00:46:33,038 Batteries... Please, don't forget your flashlight. You'll need it. 643 00:46:33,062 --> 00:46:34,120 Thank you... 644 00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:38,160 - Your driver doesn't drink, does he? - No, the driver doesn't 645 00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:41,720 - And in Warsaw? Don't drivers drink there? - No, they don't (laughter) 646 00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:53,760 - Oh, it fits well! - It's warm... 647 00:46:57,040 --> 00:46:59,040 Is it locked? 648 00:47:03,620 --> 00:47:07,420 The boys from Poland have come. They've brought you some things 649 00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:11,360 Look, they are prepared for the Orthodox New Year 650 00:47:17,100 --> 00:47:19,100 - Thank you... - There are jar lids... 651 00:47:19,220 --> 00:47:20,880 And here's some food 652 00:47:22,980 --> 00:47:24,980 - Good evening! - Good evening! 653 00:47:25,300 --> 00:47:28,260 Well, we have lots of food, some sausage... 654 00:47:28,540 --> 00:47:31,380 So, boys, what will it be? Do you fancy a shot of vodka? 655 00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:40,920 - Thank you very much, sir.... - And I thank you too, thank you 656 00:47:41,580 --> 00:47:44,700 - We'll come again - Please do, please do... 657 00:47:47,220 --> 00:47:49,220 - Good morning! - Good morning 658 00:47:49,660 --> 00:47:51,440 Oh, my dear children... 659 00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:57,080 We took a picture of you last year. Do you remember that? 660 00:47:57,120 --> 00:47:58,940 We promised to give it to you 661 00:47:58,940 --> 00:47:59,960 - Oh, yes! 662 00:48:00,380 --> 00:48:04,260 And we've brought you a new flashlight. It's a good one 663 00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:09,520 - Good morning! 664 00:48:09,820 --> 00:48:13,800 We came to you from Poland, to help you! We've brought some goods 665 00:48:14,180 --> 00:48:17,860 - You may like it... - Thank you, my children... 666 00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:21,940 - Ooh! Now I'll sleep like a queen! 667 00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:25,140 - It'll be much warmer! - Very warm and cosy! 668 00:48:25,380 --> 00:48:29,060 I'm alone! Alone... 669 00:48:32,060 --> 00:48:35,180 Look at this, as if it were made just for you... 670 00:48:39,240 --> 00:48:41,700 - It'll be warmer, just like back in the day! 671 00:48:41,780 --> 00:48:43,980 Thank you so much... Thank you, my son... 672 00:48:44,060 --> 00:48:46,460 May God help you... 673 00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:49,380 I will help you button it up... 674 00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:52,860 Oh, it's good now... here you have the buttons... 675 00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:58,160 Oh, that's fine... I can also make it tight... 676 00:48:58,580 --> 00:49:02,400 - Will it fit? - Oh, yes, it's good... 677 00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:06,800 Here you have a nice picture from that movie "The Babushkas of Chernobyl" 678 00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:09,080 It's a beautiful picture of you... 679 00:49:09,380 --> 00:49:11,900 There's a proverb, children... 680 00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:16,840 God loves us, God is with us 681 00:49:17,940 --> 00:49:21,780 May you live as long as I do! 682 00:49:23,140 --> 00:49:27,700 And may you come to my funeral... 683 00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:32,080 She is blind in one eye. Indeed, it's noticeable that her eyesight has deteriorated 684 00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:36,260 And this, my children, I chopped by myself... 685 00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:38,480 I chopped it and I carried it... 686 00:49:38,520 --> 00:49:40,900 - We wish you good luck! - May God be with you! 687 00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:45,020 May you come here again, next year! 688 00:49:45,140 --> 00:49:48,740 - May I live long enough to see you again! - We'll visit you, every year! 689 00:49:48,900 --> 00:49:53,580 When I hear a car coming, I'll know it's my boys... 690 00:49:53,660 --> 00:49:58,960 May God help you! You and your families! 691 00:50:17,500 --> 00:50:20,160 There were terrible fires here 692 00:50:20,300 --> 00:50:24,480 They didn't reach us but the situation was dire in the spring 693 00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:27,140 You see how dry it is here... 694 00:50:27,240 --> 00:50:31,620 and in the summer it was 40 degrees here, almost like in Australia 695 00:50:32,180 --> 00:50:36,240 There were aeroplanes flying by... no, those were helicopters... 696 00:50:36,660 --> 00:50:38,680 Poliske was on fire 697 00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:41,360 There are forests here, everywhere 698 00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:46,340 They tried to control the fire from the air, there were firefighters too. 699 00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:49,660 The fire didn't reach us 700 00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:53,240 - Are you responsible for fire prevention here? 701 00:50:53,240 --> 00:50:54,840 - Yes, yes 702 00:50:55,720 --> 00:51:01,160 Oh... there were fires in the summer… Sokoly, Bychky [villages]... There's a monastery 703 00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:04,340 Sokoly, Bychky... it's on the way to Rosokha 704 00:51:04,700 --> 00:51:07,075 Yes. In the summer there were fires there and 705 00:51:07,099 --> 00:51:09,800 we thought that the fire would reach Rosokha too 706 00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:12,020 But we'd managed to prevent it 707 00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:16,180 - I think it was in August? - Yes, I think so 708 00:51:16,380 --> 00:51:19,400 We're removing the fallen trees... to keep the roads clean 709 00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:21,660 - So it's sanitary forest maintenance - Yes 710 00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:23,540 - How long did you work here? 711 00:51:23,540 --> 00:51:27,840 Well.... I worked here for 19 years... 712 00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:31,940 I started when they were creating "Backwoods of Chernobyl Organization", 713 00:51:31,940 --> 00:51:34,400 Then it was called "Chernobyl-Woods" 714 00:51:34,460 --> 00:51:37,020 Yes... it became operational in 1992 715 00:51:37,100 --> 00:51:41,820 They established it in 1992 and in 1993 I came to work here. 716 00:51:41,820 --> 00:51:45,498 I worked here for 19 years. Then I left to 717 00:51:45,522 --> 00:51:49,740 work near my place of residence, in a factory 718 00:51:49,820 --> 00:51:52,140 I came back here 2 years ago 719 00:51:52,540 --> 00:51:54,880 - How many firefighters are here, more or less? 720 00:51:54,940 --> 00:52:01,880 - Three drivers, and some other people... 721 00:52:04,060 --> 00:52:05,460 We are short of people here 722 00:52:05,460 --> 00:52:07,820 The team is incomplete - I see... 723 00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:10,240 - So there are three trucks, right? 724 00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:14,680 Can we look around here? We've never been here before to take a look... 725 00:52:14,940 --> 00:52:18,160 We'd always pass this place by and just go further... 726 00:52:23,060 --> 00:52:27,300 My favourite childhood TV series: "Four Tank-Men and a Dog" 727 00:52:27,380 --> 00:52:30,143 Oh yeah! Four tank-men with that dog! An old TV show! 728 00:52:30,167 --> 00:52:31,180 Yes, yes 729 00:52:31,180 --> 00:52:35,640 There was that Janek... wait a sec... Gustlik 730 00:52:37,060 --> 00:52:39,220 - And the dog? What was he called? 731 00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:42,200 - And Szarik, the dog - Szarik, yes, yes 732 00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:46,100 Oh yeah, I watched it when I was little... 733 00:53:03,460 --> 00:53:05,240 You repaired it on your own, right? 734 00:53:05,260 --> 00:53:12,060 No... only partially. I brought the windows and installed them 735 00:53:12,740 --> 00:53:14,340 - And the floor? 736 00:53:14,440 --> 00:53:18,960 Well, yeah... There was a big hole in here 737 00:53:19,120 --> 00:53:25,700 It was quite a challenge. But it had to be done, there was no time to be sad about it 738 00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:32,760 We once had a beautiful Orthodox church here... We had an airport... 739 00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:36,600 Even a beacon pole 740 00:53:36,700 --> 00:53:41,440 Well... It could use some painting here or there... 741 00:53:41,660 --> 00:53:45,000 We try to keep it in a good condition 742 00:53:48,160 --> 00:53:53,700 - What's the role of religion in your life? What does it mean to you? 743 00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:55,780 You know... 744 00:53:55,800 --> 00:53:59,460 My mother was a believer, my father was a believer and I'm a believer too 745 00:54:00,920 --> 00:54:02,440 And I'll tell you one thing... 746 00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:09,660 When I was in the army, they came here from Rivne area, from western Ukraine 747 00:54:09,840 --> 00:54:13,520 There are also other areas as Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv... 748 00:54:15,540 --> 00:54:17,340 They killed people there... 749 00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:24,640 There were two commandants, machine gunners... Semyachuk and... 750 00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:26,420 and Perelchuk 751 00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:31,880 And they asked me: "Hey man! Do you believe in God?" 752 00:54:31,980 --> 00:54:35,400 And I said: "How should I prove it to you?" 753 00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:38,960 The said: "We are believers. Look, we have holy pictures here" (icons) 754 00:54:39,020 --> 00:54:42,700 And then I produced a crucifix out of my pocket 755 00:54:42,740 --> 00:54:45,117 And they were like "Oh... so you're one of us!", 756 00:54:45,141 --> 00:54:47,660 and I said: "Well... yes, I am! I hope you are too" 757 00:54:47,660 --> 00:54:52,918 Well... it doesn't matter if you believe or you don't. You don't believe - it's 758 00:54:52,942 --> 00:54:58,200 not my business, but if you do believe, then it's like having some extra power... 759 00:54:58,240 --> 00:55:02,740 I believe and my faith helps me a lot. 760 00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:10,620 I always say: "Forgive me, I'll now pray to God...and you can do as you please." 761 00:55:10,700 --> 00:55:12,720 - Thank you, sir! - And I thank you too! 762 00:55:12,720 --> 00:55:13,980 - Stay healthy - Thank you 763 00:55:14,040 --> 00:55:16,100 - It's important for you to stay healthy! 764 00:55:16,180 --> 00:55:20,140 Please forgive me but I've already lived my life, for 90 years... 765 00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:22,080 And you still have a life to live... 766 00:55:22,160 --> 00:55:25,260 I won't take anything from here with me, when I'm dead 767 00:55:25,260 --> 00:55:27,740 There's an Ukrainian song... I forgot its title... 768 00:55:27,780 --> 00:55:32,200 About people who die and who don't take anything with them, to the coffin 769 00:55:32,220 --> 00:55:35,160 And I won't take anything with me, either... 770 00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:47,820 - Welcome! - Good morning! 771 00:58:47,980 --> 00:58:49,560 - What a surprise! - It's us! 772 00:58:49,900 --> 00:58:52,480 - May we enter? - Lady Hania! You have guests! 773 00:58:52,840 --> 00:58:55,220 - The Polish boys have come! 774 00:58:55,220 --> 00:58:56,900 - There are guests for you... 775 00:58:57,160 --> 00:58:59,160 ...and she's sitting here and singing... 776 00:58:59,680 --> 00:59:02,960 - Good morning! It's us! 777 00:59:03,480 --> 00:59:05,120 - Come in! (laughter) 778 00:59:05,220 --> 00:59:08,160 - Good morning... please, don't get up for us! 779 00:59:08,340 --> 00:59:10,840 - Good morning! - Good morning! 780 00:59:10,840 --> 00:59:13,600 I told you that we'd come... 781 00:59:14,180 --> 00:59:18,820 - And we all wondered where you've been... - You didn't know where I stay... 782 00:59:19,200 --> 00:59:23,800 Thank you that you came to me... Thank you so much... 783 00:59:24,400 --> 00:59:29,280 I don't know if I can make it home or not... 784 00:59:29,520 --> 00:59:32,900 I can't walk. My legs hurt a lot... 785 00:59:34,960 --> 00:59:39,040 And, where I live, one needs to carry water and firewood... 786 00:59:39,620 --> 00:59:43,200 And what can I do when it snows? 787 00:59:43,400 --> 00:59:44,658 That's true.... 788 00:59:44,682 --> 00:59:48,480 In the summer it's not bad... But in the winter, I'm helpless on my own. 789 00:59:48,880 --> 00:59:54,320 - When are you going home? 790 00:59:54,500 --> 00:59:56,500 - Tomorrow... back to Poland 791 00:59:56,800 --> 00:59:58,760 - My children, thank you so, so much... 792 00:59:58,820 --> 01:00:02,200 ...that you came here and paid me a visit... 793 01:00:02,520 --> 01:00:07,020 - Thank you... - Thank you for remembering us... 794 01:00:07,280 --> 01:00:12,620 Last year we came here and took a picture of you... 795 01:00:17,660 --> 01:00:20,580 - (laughter) Thank you... - It's a keepsake! - Thank you 796 01:00:23,720 --> 01:00:27,520 - Thank you... I won't forget you... 797 01:00:27,700 --> 01:00:31,960 - Is it him...? - No, it's him! 798 01:00:32,180 --> 01:00:36,840 - Oh, it's him... And this is me. - It's you... 799 01:00:37,140 --> 01:00:42,580 - And this is me, this woman! And this one? - He was our guide, he works for COTIZ 800 01:00:43,320 --> 01:00:46,580 - Do you have a phone? - A phone? Yes. 801 01:00:46,980 --> 01:00:48,340 We tried to call you 802 01:00:48,440 --> 01:00:49,840 Oh, did you? And when? 803 01:00:50,080 --> 01:00:52,080 - A week ago, or something... 804 01:00:52,640 --> 01:00:56,220 - That's possible. Probably I left my phone and I was somewhere else... 805 01:00:56,240 --> 01:00:58,240 - Maybe you didn't hear it ring... 806 01:00:58,380 --> 01:01:00,878 - That's possible, because I never carry it 807 01:01:00,902 --> 01:01:03,400 on me... I go out and the phone stays here... 808 01:01:03,520 --> 01:01:07,480 - We tried to call you to ask where you were staying 809 01:01:12,860 --> 01:01:14,380 It works! 810 01:01:14,440 --> 01:01:17,060 - Is it your number? - Yes 811 01:01:18,440 --> 01:01:21,720 How come did you have to go to hospital? 812 01:01:23,160 --> 01:01:27,060 To hospital? One time I woke up and couldn't stand on my feet 813 01:01:27,200 --> 01:01:31,260 Some 'dachnik' from Kyiv called an ambulance 814 01:01:31,320 --> 01:01:33,880 The ambulance came and they took me to the hospital 815 01:01:33,880 --> 01:01:39,900 I stayed there for 15 days... then I wanted to go home but they brought me here... 816 01:01:39,900 --> 01:01:43,100 Because at home... there'd be nobody to help me 817 01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:44,900 Nobody would come... 818 01:01:44,980 --> 01:01:47,200 So they brought me here... 819 01:01:48,080 --> 01:01:50,980 - And who, in Teremtsy (her village), called an ambulance? 820 01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:54,803 Those people from Kyiv... There was that 'dachnik' and he made a phone call. 821 01:01:54,827 --> 01:01:58,080 (Dachnik - a Samosel who leaves the Exclusion Zone for the winter) 822 01:01:58,140 --> 01:02:00,480 The ambulance came and they took me. 823 01:02:00,500 --> 01:02:04,920 - To the hospital in Ivankiv? - Yes, in Ivankiv... 824 01:02:04,980 --> 01:02:09,660 I fell twice... I fell and couldn't get up... 825 01:02:09,740 --> 01:02:13,360 There was nobody to pick me up... And I couldn't do it on my own 826 01:02:13,420 --> 01:02:16,018 In the past, there was that Vasil who would visit 827 01:02:16,042 --> 01:02:18,640 me... But now he's gone. He doesn't come anymore... 828 01:02:18,720 --> 01:02:23,560 My legs give out on me. The legs are the main problem... 829 01:02:24,820 --> 01:02:31,160 I couldn't get up at all... I spent 15 days in Ivankiv, in the hospital 830 01:02:31,220 --> 01:02:33,740 And then they brought me here... 831 01:02:34,640 --> 01:02:39,880 Otherwise, I'd have died and I'd have been gone... 832 01:02:40,320 --> 01:02:42,020 I wouldn't mind that either 833 01:02:42,640 --> 01:02:47,100 - Don't say that! - Why not, my son... 834 01:02:47,420 --> 01:02:49,133 Which place do you like more? 835 01:02:49,157 --> 01:02:51,880 Well... my house... it's where my home is. 836 01:02:52,100 --> 01:02:54,240 My own home... 837 01:02:54,660 --> 01:03:00,020 Everything there is mine...everything is familiar... 838 01:03:00,100 --> 01:03:01,240 And here? 839 01:03:01,320 --> 01:03:05,140 Nothing is mine... there are only strangers here... I'm alone. 840 01:03:05,400 --> 01:03:09,020 Thank you, son, that you came to visit me here... 841 01:03:09,560 --> 01:03:10,660 I... 842 01:03:15,860 --> 01:03:17,200 I am... 843 01:03:18,000 --> 01:03:20,980 I am so, so happy that I can see you all... 844 01:03:21,180 --> 01:03:24,120 That you visit me... 845 01:03:24,560 --> 01:03:26,800 I am so grateful... 846 01:03:27,200 --> 01:03:32,680 Thank you... for finding me... 847 01:03:33,560 --> 01:03:35,860 I don't know what to say... 848 01:03:35,920 --> 01:03:37,920 I don't need anything anymore 849 01:03:38,520 --> 01:03:40,600 It's time for me to pass away... 850 01:03:47,920 --> 01:03:50,820 - Please stop crying... You don't need to die. 851 01:03:53,300 --> 01:03:54,860 - You have to live! 852 01:03:55,280 --> 01:03:57,040 No... 853 01:03:57,880 --> 01:04:00,820 I've had enough... 854 01:04:09,320 --> 01:04:12,440 The Last People of Chernobyl 855 01:04:17,440 --> 01:04:19,440 Produced by: XBestCinema 856 01:04:20,300 --> 01:04:24,100 Organization of the charity expedition: Krystian Machnik, Napromieniowani.pl 857 01:04:24,100 --> 01:04:26,100 Directed by/Photography: Amadeusz Kocan 858 01:04:27,900 --> 01:04:29,720 Music: Alan Bucki 859 01:04:31,160 --> 01:04:32,860 Narrator: Tomasz Knapik 860 01:04:34,520 --> 01:04:36,520 Sound: Amadeusz Kocan 861 01:04:37,920 --> 01:04:39,760 Computer effects: Bartosz Wabno 862 01:04:41,200 --> 01:04:43,380 Additional computer effects: Robert Sawicki 863 01:04:45,240 --> 01:04:47,240 Editing/colorization: Amadeusz Kocan 864 01:04:48,560 --> 01:04:50,560 Producer/Texts/Drone: Krystian Machnik 865 01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:53,740 Graphics: Kinga Klakla 866 01:04:55,280 --> 01:04:57,280 Photo report: Maciej Bogaczyk 867 01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:00,100 Interpreter: Marek Baryshevskyi 868 01:05:01,460 --> 01:05:03,660 Implementation of the Polish language version 869 01:05:05,300 --> 01:05:07,500 Screenplay: Amadeusz Kocan, Krystian Machnik 870 01:05:17,480 --> 01:05:25,020 During production of this movie, grandpa Ivan from Parishev passed away. 871 01:05:27,640 --> 01:05:34,220 On his 85th birthday. 872 01:05:44,040 --> 01:05:49,560 Ivan Ivanovich Semenyuk 25.03.1935 - 25.03.2020 873 01:06:05,020 --> 01:06:08,440 In memory of those who passed away and are forgotten 874 01:06:08,440 --> 01:06:12,739 The charity expedition was organized thanks to the voluntary donations and support from 875 01:06:12,863 --> 01:06:15,271 the readers of Napromieniowani.pl, our families, 876 01:06:15,495 --> 01:06:17,640 friends and other contributors. Thank you.