The version on video DVDs can be played in any modern DVD player or computer. Language learners will probably find it useful to consult a printed transcript as they watch the film.
| Three atomic accidents and fifty years of nuclear waste dumping have turned the Techa River into a toxic waste dump. Few of the villages along the river were ever evacuated by the Soviet government. Chelyabinsk-40, an atomic weapons factory, was a top secret installation, and both its accidents, and the lethal effects on the local ecology were a closely guarded secret, even from the people most affected by it. Everyone noticed that people were dying of cancer in their forties and that birth defects were rampant, but no one knew why. Now that the truth is out, how are these villagers coping? |
![]() "Everything was top secret, no one knew anything, that's how it was." |