Chernobyl:
Years And Destinies

Production Co: Minchemobyl of Ukraine, Contact Studios of Ukraine
Producer: Oleg Frayen
Director: Georgy Shklyarevsky

Year: 1996

Genre: Documentary

Region: Ukraine

Duration: 43'

Language: English

Ten years after the world's worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl, Ukrainian director Georgy Shklyarevsky revisits the region around the stricken power station - and reveals that the devastating effects of the disaster are set to last well into the next century.  Three million people from 76 `dead' cities, villages and townships have been officially registered victims of Chernobyl.  Subjected to a continuous flow of misinformation, many have become refugees; others - along with the 356,000 rescue workers - have developed debilitating, sometimes fatal, illnesses.  Meanwhile the power station itself continues to function, backed - Shklyarevsky claims - by foreign aid; together with the hundreds of humanitarian aid projects set up to help Chernobyl's victims, it consumes between five to eight per cent of the Ukraine's national budget.