The Bell Of Chernobyl.

The Bell Of Chernobyl. , 1987 (1:28:58)

Annotation: About the aftermath of the explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Electric Power Station, attempts to reduce the impact ot radiation on surrounding territories.

Film description: The film tells about the Chernobyl tragedy. The film was filming the following: ruins of the 4-th unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the types of Pripyat, abandoned people. Armored personnel carrier passes on the street, a helicopter flies over the infected area. Radiation control cars. Job dosimetrists in rural settlements. Residents of one village, talking to each other (synchronously). The commander sends a group of soldiers to the 4-th unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant for cleaning of contaminated debris. Soldiers are the ruins of 4-th power. Dosimetrists pass through the streets of Chernobyl. Decontamination of houses in the affected villages and orchards. Type of deserted villages in the contaminated zone. Kind of a military tent camp. Conducting underground works. Staff take a mobile laboratory blood tests in people. Service in one of the churches. The work of the state commission for acceptance deactivated village. Landscapes of the forest. Measurement of radiation in the forest. Collection of land, grass for analysis. Patients who received large doses of radiation, in a hospital in Kiev. Evacuated residents of settlements, entered a zone of contamination, the new place of residence. A group of scientists on board the helicopter survey conducted 4-th power plant. Among the scientists on the scene academics, the grand and writing. The interiors of the station. Interview E. Vilihova (synchronously). Construction of the sarcophagus for the 4-th power. Interviews witnesses of the accident, the staff of the station, the villagers, disaster relief workers at nuclear power plants (synchronously).

Source description 1: An asphalted highway, a cloud.
Anna Hodymchuk is speaking in the street, panorama of the field.
The photo of her son, Valery Hudynchuk (the adult and in the childhood), a victim of the disaster in the Chernobyl NPP (Nuclear Power Plant].
Anna Hodymchuk is cleaning the photo of her son (at home); wiping her tears.
The ruins of the 4th block of the Chernobyl NPP.
The flight over the Chernobyl NPP.
V.Chugunov, worker of the 1st reactor shop of the NPP, is speaking in the street.
The village of Pripyat’ (deserted, without people); a panorama of the streets.
A table on the house with the inscription “Kurchatov Street, 16”.
Panorama of linen on the balcony.
Panorama of a big wheel rotating (without people).
Operating traffic lights.
The 4th block of the NPP in the distance.
Panorama of the NPP territory after the disaster.
The destroyed reactor.
Panorama of the people in respirators walking by the roof of the building.
Yu. Samoilenko, NPP Deputy Chief Engineer, speaking while standing on the roof.
Panorama of a breach in the roof, shambles.
A panorama of the radioactive pieces on the roof.
A helicopter is flying by.
A flight over the territory of the Nuclear Power Plant, sprinkled with a special solution, over the unsprinkled territory.
Military vehicles on the highway.
A billboard with a message: “The traffic of personal transport on the highway Kiev-Ivankov-Polesskoe is prohibited”.
A panorama of the dosimetry control of the cars on the road.

Source description 2: The dosimetry control on the road.
A dosimeter on the wall.
A roadsign, panorama of people on the cart (evacuation from dangerous places).
A panorama of the summer landscape: a field, a stream.
A panorama of the local inhabitant Lyakhov speaking.
A woman is looking out of the window.
The dosimeter is operating in the yard of the house, panorama of the stork on the roof, of the swallow’s nest.
Panorama of the inhabitants of the village Hovtilovki talking to each other.
Panorama of a village street.
Panorama of the Ukrainian-speaking woman.
The ruins of the 4th block.
The soldiers are being dressed in special suits.
The Commander is instructing the soldiers how to clean radioactive areas; the soldiers are standing, then going upstairs to the roof of the 4th block, running, clearing the roof from the roof.
Doctor of Biological Sciences V. Shevchenko is speaking.
Panorama of a tree with the table “Infected”.
Panorama of raspberries.
Panorama of cherry trees.
A small flag with the inscription “Infected”.
Panorama of a dosimetrist at work.
People dressed in white are going along the streets of the town of Chernobyl.
An inscription on the well: “Infected”.
Panorama of a decontamination plant.
Decontamination of a house.
The treatment of the house, of the trees with a special solution.
The soldiers are digging off the infected flowers and bringing them out on the barrow.
The stork is flying off from the nest, escaping from the stream of solution, then coming back.
Panorama of a woman passing by the village fence.

Source description 3: Panorama of S. Melnichenko weeding the ridges in the kitchen-garden.
The street of the evacuated village, a cat is going.
V. Melnichenko is speaking in the street, another peasant woman is sitting on the bench and also speaking.
The houses with the windows boarded up.
A small flag in the village street with the inscription “Infected”.
The military camp, the lorries are standing, the armored troop carriers are being driven out, the panorama of the tents.
Panorama of the destroyed NNP block.
Panorama of the works on installing a heat-exchanging unit in an underground adit.
Panorama of the people pushing the cart.
Panorama of a man working with an air hammer.
The people at the tables in the administrative building cellar.
The new Director of the NPP E. Pozdnishev is speaking about the working process in the factory.
Panorama of the works near the NPP.
Blood is being taken from the finger for analysis.
The nurse is taking the blood, writing down the data, talking to the peasant woman V. Privar near the mobile laboratory.
Panorama of the people in the street.
Panorama of a laboratory assistant.
A man in the street is talking to V. Privar, she is telling him about the evacuation.
The old men are sitting on the bench.
The old women are near the fence.
Panorama of a man driving a cow along a village street.
Panorama of a tree coma

Source description 4: The ruins of the 4th block of the Chernobyl NPP.
Panorama of a concrete mixer operating.
A worker is mounting a hose into a cement carrier.
Panorama of the concrete mixers and cement carriers in the plant yard.
The Doctor of Physical-Mathematical Sciences U. Sivintsev is speaking.
Panorama of the NPP workers in the street.
A stand with the inscription: “The Chernobyl NPP Working Life”.
The people are standing near the board with the inscription: “They write to us”
A panorama of telegrams, letters, etc on the stand.
The bells of the Polesskaya village church.
Service in the church of the Spaso-Preobrazhensky parish, a panorama of the candles, icon, standing women.
The priest is speaking about the help to Chernobyl.
A panorama of the church interior.
Parishioners’ faces.
Panorama of measuring the radiation level of the straw berries.
A panorama of the people on the wheat field.
Panorama of the activities of the State Committee for the Adoption of the Decontaminated Village, speaking.
A panorama of checking the radiation level in the draw-well.
A pine wood.
An ant hill in the forest.
Ceps and brown cap boletus.
A poster in the forest with the inscription “Inhabitants! It is temporarily forbidden to enter the forest and use its bounty of nature!”
Measuring the radiation level on the tree, in the field.
The First Secretary of the Polessky District Committee of the Communist Party N. Primachenko is talking to the Committee members.
Panorama of buses standing in the village.
A panorama of broken cars.
A panorama of the map in hands.
A sealed village house.
A nailed-up window
A panorama of the General-Chairman of the State Committee talking to its members .
A panorama of members of the State Committee passing by.

Source description 5: A tree in the forest, the inscription on the shield “Restricted area”.
A panorama of the flying stork
A panorama of the stork in the nest on the house roof.
A panorama of the village inhabitants standing on the border of the restricted area, talking to the helicopter pilots.
A panorama of a laboratory assistant taking soil and grass for the test.
People getting into the helicopter, the helicopter is taking off, flying by.
The stork with nestlings in the nest.
A panorama of the combat engineer vehicle going by.
A robot is approaching the 4th block, a mechanician is rushing out, going up to the control panel (in the hazardous area).
A helicopter is flying over the Cossack village.
Robots are unloading the soil and road metal. A panorama of the ruins of the 4th block of the Nuclear Power Plant.
A panorama of people running along the territory of the Nuclear Power Plant under the pouring rain.
Armored troop carriers and other equipment under the rain.
People sleeping on the plank beds in the room.
A panorama of the NPP employees sitting at the TV screen.
Standing on the roof, Golubev and Samoylenko are talking about the accident.
A panorama of the NPP territory.
A robot is throwing out the radioactive pieces from the roof.
US Professor R. Gale is speaking before the doctors.
Doctors are listening.
A panorama of slide show; slide projector.
Tree coma.
The witness of the accident, the resident of the village Pripyat V. Belikov is speaking (in the hospital yard).
The sign board with the inscription “Kiev Scientific Research Institute of Radiology &Nuclear Medicine and Oncology”.

Source description 6: The sign board of the Kiev Oncology Institute; a panorama of the hospital corridor.
Brothers Pyotrr and Leonid Shavreys - firemen who were at the Nuclear Power Plant at the moment of accident, are speaking, in the hospital.
A panorama of the patients in the ward.
The elder Shavrey, the father of the three victims of the accident, is speaking.
A panorama of the mother of the Shavreys brothers speaking by the house.
A panorama of Pyotr’s wife Lyudmila speaking in the room, their 4-year son is sitting beside her.
A village landscape, a draw well.
A panorama of a road sign with the inscription “Gomel Region”, the inscription on the shield: “Restricted area”.
A panorama of the houses with nailed-up windows.
Apples on the branch.
A panorama of an empty village.
The direction sign with the inscription “Chernobylsky District”.
A panorama from the apple trees to the house.
A panorama of cherry tree comas.
Cherries are hanging on the branch.
A panorama of the apples on the trees.
A panorama of the pictures of the firemen, died during the Chernobyl accident.
Doctors on duty in the oncological hospital - ср.
A panorama of patients in the hall watching TV.
Football match, fans are exulting (on the TV screen).
N. Lukovenko is walking with his daughter.
A panorama of the examination of the girl in the hospital, Lukovenko is speaking.

Source description 7: Medical dropper.
A girl is lying, a panorama of the nurse.
The girl’s mother, the inhabitant of the town of Pripyat N. Lukovenko is speaking.
A street of the empty town of Pripyat, a house, the inscription “Druzhby Narodov Street, 9” [“Street of the Friendship between Peoples, 9”].
The memorial tablet on the first house in Pripyat, a panorama of windows.
A left perambulator.
The town of Pripyat.
The famous US public figure A. Hammer is speaking.
A panorama of the barbed wire, hedging the 30 –km contaminated area.
A panorama of the house with nailed-up windows.
Apples on the ground, panorama of the house.
A panorama of the contaminated field.
A panorama of the tree comas and the wire.
A bird sitting on the barbed wire.
A panorama of a new village built for the accident victims.
Peasants talking to the First Secretary of the Polessky District Committee of the Communist Party I. Primachenko.
The damaged 4th block of the Chernobyl Power Plant.
Scientists in the helicopter, looking through the illuminator.
A panorama of the helicopter over the Nuclear Power Plant, the rope is being pulled down.
The Plant.
A panorama of Academician E.P. Velikhov and Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences Pismenny walking along the NPP corridor
A panorama of the ruins of the block.
Academican Pismenny is breaking the window of the NPP gallery and together with E.P. Velikhov and the plant employee drawing from the window the rope with probe, which has fallen into the high radiation area.
The damaged block.
Academicians Pismenny and Velikhov are looking out of the window .

Source description 8: A panorama of the NPP 4th block ruins.
The Vice-President of the USSR Academy of Sciences E.P. Velikhov is speaking (about the liquidation of the crash).
A panorama of Е.P. Velikhov and Comrade Pismenny at the place of explosion.
The worker of the 1st reactor workshop V. Shilonosov is speaking indoors.
A panorama of the Nuclear Power Plant workers getting on the bus..
A picture of the worker of the 1st reactor workshop V. Orlov.
V. Orlov, who took part in the accident elimination is speaking in the street, a panorama of the town.
The yard of the Nuclear Power Plant.
A panorama of people walking along the plant corridor.
A panorama of the turbine island.
A panorama of the turbines.
A panorama of the operator’s room, operators by the control panel.
Soldiers sleeping in the corridor, people with luggage passing by.
Soldiers are taking the pieces (radioactive) from the roof of the 4th block.
V. Belikov is speaking (in the hospital garden).
A panorama of the block ruins, people working.
A square in Chernobyl.
A shield on door with the inscription: “The Chairman of the Government Committee Yuri Maslyukov”, the door is being opened.
The session of the Committee, a report made by its member, Vice-Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Yu. Maslyukov is speaking .

Source description 9: A panorama of the armored troop carrier going by, a panorama of a direction sign with the inscription “Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant”.
A panorama of another direction sign.
A panorama of NPP workers in the recreation area.
A river, ships are standing still.
A small house door is being closed (the village “Zelyony Mys” [“Green Cape”] for the workers of the Nuclear Power Plant).
A man is washing the quay.
The newly wedded couple from Kazakhstan, who have decided to spent their honeymoon working in Chernobyl, are boarding the ship.
The plan of the village, a panorama of the houses.
A housing block.
The village.
A panorama of the city of Kiev: V. Orlov is unloading luggage out of the car.
A panorama of the newly erected buildings, Orlov’s family is going out of the house.
A panorama of V. Orlov passing with his children.
A panorama of the ruins of the 4th block of the Nuclear Power Plant.
A panorama of machinery working on the erection of “sarcophagus”, having buried the former reactor.
A panorama of the machinery operating to place a "sarcophagus" to bury the old reactor
A panorama of welding.
Cement carriers are arriving and going away.
Concreting of the 4th block.
A panorama of a mosaic picture on the wall.
Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences A. Vorobyov is speaking about the nuclear war danger .
A direction sign with the inscription “Chernobyl”.
Trees under the blowing wind, a panorama of the field with unseasoned wheat.
A panorama of fishermen fishing.
A fisherman is speaking.
A direction sign with the inscription “Contaminated roadside”.
А. Khodymchyuk.
Highway.

Directors: Sergienko R.

Operators: Dvoynikov I., Durnov K., Frolenko V.

Script writers: Sinelnikov V., Sergienko R.

Composers: Karavaychuk O.

Announcer: Nevzorov B.