THE BABUSHKAS OF CHERNOBYL

Directed by Holly Morris

Ukraine via USA / 2015 / 71 mins / Russian with English subtitles / Massachusetts Premiere

THE BABUSHKAS OF CHERNOBYL

Peabody Essex Museum
Saturday, March 5, 5:45pm Buy Tickets

Description

FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE A community of women who returned to their homes in the radioactive Dead Zone surrounding Chernobyl’s Reactor No. 4 continue to defy the authorities and endanger their health as they barely eke out an existence in this lethal landscape.

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