The "Volodarka" ciné-science will take place on Thursday, April 14, 2022 at 8:30pm at the "Astrée" cinema. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Micheline Draye, University Professor atUniversité Savoie Mont Blanc, Laboratoire EDYTEM and with Eric Brunat, economist at the IREGE laboratory, université Savoie Mont Blanc, and former UN economist advisor in Russia, Belarus and Moldavia.
ABOUT THE FILM
Volodarka is the name of a village classified as zone 4 since the nuclear disaster of April 26, 1986. That year, Vassili and Viera met. He, a reservist soldier, was recalled on the night of April 27-28 for a compulsory mission to the Chernobyl power plant. She was alone in the village with her three children.
Today, in Volodarka, 35 km from the power plant, more than 25 years after the disaster: "We don't get any help to stay in this area, which is so uncontaminated. But we live well with the vegetable garden, a cow, a few chickens and a pig."
"We're not afraid of radiation, we don't talk about it. On the edge of the nuclear exclusion zone around Chernobyl, ordinary life, laughter, boredom, singing, the breath, however exhausted, of these invisible lives, exiled in their own land. A journey into a non-place of dust and wind. Another figuration of reality is in the offing. The cursed earth is also a power of the future that buds, that is cultivated, that nourishes all hope.
Through the banality of everyday life and the precariousness of lives, Volodarka questions our civilization of progress, which, far from the first gods, affirms its belief in the atom and silences the great human sacrifices. If on April 26, 1986, an explosion equivalent to 350 Hiroshima bombs transformed the small town of Chernobyl into a Forbidden Zone, we'll never know when the event ended or how far it spread...
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