SACHA, A CHILD FROM CHERNOBYL

A film produced by Resumen Latinoamericano about the untold story of Cuba’s contribution to help victims of Chernobyl.

SUNDAY JUNE 20, 2021
5:00 pm PST
7:00 pm CST
8:00 pm EST

Sacha Un Niño de Chernobyl
(with English subtitles)

With Remarks by the Cuban Ambassador to the United States, Lianys Torres Rivera

Olexandr Savchenko, “Sacha,” was one year old when the explosion of the nuclear power plant Vladimir Ilich Lenin at Chernobyl occurred on April 26, 1986. He lived in Chernigov, a village in the Ukrainian countryside near the area of the accident. He got sick shortly afterward and doctors were unable to make a clear diagnosis because the healthcare system had collapsed while the then Soviet Union was close to disintegrating. Sacha’s condition worsened to the despair of his mother, Lidia Savchenko, who took her baby from one doctor to another without his getting better. One day, other mothers in similar situations told her that there was a possibility that he could be treated on a small island far away. Sacha, it turns out, is one of the 26,000 boys and girls from Russia, Belarus, and the Ukraine who were treated in Cuba over a 21 year period after the nuclear accident at Chernobyl.

This is the context for the history told by the new 39 minute documentary film; Sacha, A Child from Chernobyl, directed by Cuban film-makers Roberto Chile and Maribel Acosta Damas and produced by the Argentine news agency Resumen Latinoamericano.

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