Dont Ask - for Whom the Bell Tolls

The film tells about the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, about the fate of people who worked to eliminate the consequences of the accident, about the trial of a group of NPP managers accused of the accident at the 4th power unit, about the settlements found themselves in the zone of radiation contamination. First part. Winter, a cemetery, servicemen are digging up a grave, a coffin is taken out, a man checks the earth from the grave with a dosimeter. Graves in the cemetery. Chernobyl NPP, view of a shutdown nuclear reactor. Forest, sign “ENTRY, ENTRANCE INTO THE FOREST FORBIDDEN. LIFE THREATENING!". A post with a DANGER! RADIATION!". Winter 1987, Chernobyl zone, tree nests, abandoned buses, empty houses. The city of Pripyat, boarded up wooden houses. Barbed wire fencing. A garden scarecrow in the snow. The plane flies over the destroyed 4th block of the reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. April 1988, the former engineer of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant A.Yuvchenko talks about the accident at a press conference (sinhr.), Demonstrates slides on the screen that are present in the hall. The liquidators of the consequences of the accident are working on the destroyed reactor. The second part of. Moscow, Mitinskoe cemetery, graves of liquidators of the consequences of the Chernobyl accident. Cr.pl. - slabs on the graves of A.V. Novik, I.L. Orlov. Summer, July 7, 1987, Chernobyl, opening of the visiting session of the Supreme Court of the USSR in the House of Culture, cars with the accused drive up, the former director of the Chernobyl NPP V.P. Bryukhanov, the former chief engineer of the station N.M. Fomin, deputy. chief engineer for operation A.S. Dyatlov (b / w footage). Workers of the press, radio and television come to the trial in "Ikarus", enter the hall. ... The judges enter the hall, announce the opening of the session, read out the accusation. V.P.Bryukhanov, N.M.Fomin, A.S. Dyatlov answer the judge's questions (sinhr.). The head of the department of information and foreign relations p / o "Combine" A. Kovalenko talks about the accused, about his attitude to the case (sinhr.). The third part. The structure of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a view of the destroyed 4th power unit. July 1987, the head of the enterprise "Spetsatom" Y. Samoilenko speaks about measures to prevent a repeated accident, about the lack of necessary actions on the part of the government (sync.). Fragments of the meeting of the USSR Supreme Court in Chernobyl, the prosecutor read out the accusation against A.S. Dyatlov (b / w footage). Former resident of Pripyat G. Derkach talks about the events of April 26, 1986, about the consequences of radiation for herself and her family (sinhr.). Cr.pl. - tulips in the garden. Summer 1988, destroyed houses in Pripyat, abandoned vegetable gardens. Biologists in protective suits in garden plots in Pripyat are studying the effects on plants of various doses of radiation. Trees with mutated branches. A ward of one of the hospitals, liquidators of the consequences of the Chernobyl accident are looking at photographs. One of the liquidators V. Gorbenko talks about his work on cleaning the ventilation pipe of the destroyed power unit, about the lack of protective equipment (sync.). newsreels: April 1986, work to eliminate the consequences of the accident at the 4th power unit. Rewarding the liquidators of the consequences of the Chernobyl accident in the Kremlin. Awarded by Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR A.A. Gromyko, Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR T.N. Menteshashvili and others. Among the awardees - the head of the group for decontamination of the roof of the emergency unit Yu.N. Samoilenko. Fourth part. Rewarding the liquidators of the consequences of the Chernobyl accident in the Kremlin. Yu.N. Samoilenko thanks for the award (sinhr.). A ward of one of the hospitals, liquidators of the consequences of the Chernobyl accident talk about a change in their state of health (sync.) One of the Chernobyl victims against the background of the reactor block talks about his attitude to restructuring, about the administrative method of leadership (sync.). NDP on the structures of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, decontamination work (treatment of premises, houses, trees). June 1989, one of the liquidators of the consequences of the Chernobyl accident G. Volobuev talks about the illnesses that arose after working at the nuclear power plant (sync.). An elderly woman walks down the street of a village in the Chernobyl zone, a panorama of the boarded up windows of wooden houses. Plates with the NDP "ENTRANCE INTO THE FOREST AND THE USE OF ITS GIFTS IS TEMPORARILY FORBIDDEN!" Cr.pl. - baskets with mushrooms. Elderly women sitting on the side of the road. The soldiers of the chemical service - participants in the liquidation of the consequences of the accident - at the tents in the zone, the soldiers read the newspapers, the soldiers at the construction at the camp. View of the area from a flying helicopter, a convoy of military equipment is driving along the road. B / W footage: the judge reads the accusation to the former director of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant Bryukhanov V.P. (sync.). The accused V.P. Bryukhanov, N.M. Fomin, A.S. Dyatlov appear in court, refuse to plead guilty under a number of articles (sinhr.). Fifth part. July 7, 1987, visiting session of the Supreme Court of the USSR in Chernobyl. Defendants Kovalenko, Rogozhkin answer the judge, refuse to plead guilty (sinhr.). General view of the meeting room. April 1988, ChNPP engineer V. Sulimov talks about the victims of the accident (sync.). Pripyat, graves in the cemetery. Cr.pl. - a monument at the grave of V.N. Shashenok. September 9, 1986, a concert on the square in Pripyat for workers involved in eliminating the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant: Alla Pugacheva performs, accompanied by the Recital group, addresses the audience (sinhr.). The audience is applauding. The liquidators are dancing on the square to the songs of A. Pugacheva. View of the destroyed 4th power unit. Farewell to the director of the Ukrainian studio of documentary films V. Shevchenko, who filmed the consequences of the Chernobyl accident, wreaths, relatives and friends standing at the coffin. The funeral procession with V. Shevchenko's coffin goes down the street to the cemetery, along the alley of the cemetery, at the grave, mother V. Shevchenko at the coffin. Sixth part. A visiting session of the Supreme Court of the USSR in Chernobyl, a witness for the prosecution - the wife of a deceased worker of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (sinhr.). The women in the hall are crying. general view of the courtroom. Birds over the Mitinsky cemetery, the funeral of one of the Chernobyl victims. V. Khodymchuk's widow at the memorial plaque in memory of her husband, buried under the rubble of the 4th power unit. A.I. Khodymchuk - Valery's mother with flowers goes to the grave of her son.

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1990