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PRODUCTION TEAM
Director :
Gunnar Bergdahl
Script :
Photography :
Anders Bohman
Editor :
Anette Lykke-Lundberg
Cast :
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THE VOICE OF LJUDMILA
In 1986, Ljudmila Ignatenko was 23 years, very much in love with her husband Vasili, a fireman, and five months pregnant. They lived in Pripyat, the city built around the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine. On the night of April 25-26, Vasili was called. There was a fire at the nuclear plant. "Go back to sleep," he told his wife. "I'll wake you when I return." He came back but not for long. Within three weeks he was dead. The child Ljudmila was expecting died five days after its birth but Ljudmila herself survived. According to the doctors, it was the baby Natasha who absorbed the radioactivity that Vasili was giving off, thus saving her mother. Ljudmila remembers: "I met Vasya when he was twenty-one. He was already a fire fighter. I worked at a bakery. We couldn't imagine that anything bad could happen... On the contrary, we were filled with good and happy thoughts. We wanted to live, we wanted to fly, we wanted to have children."
Gunnar Bergdahl
Born in Stockholm in 1951, Gunnar Bergdahl founded the film magazine Filmkonst in 1989. He served as the director of Gothenburg Film Festival from 1994 to 2001. His documentary, THE VOICE OF BERGMAN (1997) was shown at festivals worldwide. Another of Bergdahl's documentaries, Ingmar Bergman; Intermezzo (2002), is also showing at this year's Montreal World Film Festival.
August 23, 2002 • 14:00:00 • PARISIEN • P2.23.3 •
August 24, 2002 • 21:30:00 • PARISIEN • P2.24.6 •
August 25, 2002 • 11:00:00 • PARISIEN • P3.25.2 •
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