This page is to obtain ONLINE access to the Sands Films Cinema Club presentation of Sacha, A Child from Chernobyl on Tuesday 26th July
To attend in person, please CLICK HERE
Presented in collaboration with North and South London Cuba Solidarity Campaign with a special thank you for support the Havana Glasgow Film Festival have given us to enable this film show to take place.
In collaboration with North and South London Cuba Solidarity Campaign come and celebrate 26th July anniversary with a screening of “Sacha: Un Niño de Chernobyl”. Olexandr Savchenko, “Sacha,” was one year old when the explosion of the nuclear power plant Vladimir Ilich Lenin in 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 afterwards and doctors were unable to make a clear diagnosis because the healthcare system had collapsed while the former 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 with no improvement. 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.
The documentary is produced by the Argentine news agency Resumen Latinoamerica and includes interviews with doctors, nurses and interpreters
Roberto Chile, Maribel Acosta Damas I Argentina 2021
39min
Spanish with English subtitles
ALSO: ON THE SLOPES OF THE HIMALAYAS is a moving documentary on Cuban medical assistance to Pakistan in the wake of the massive earthquake that killed more than 75,000 Pakistanis, maimed over 100, 0000 and left more than 3.3 million homeless. Cuba sent hundreds of medical personnel, who provided the most extensive and in depth care, treating many more people.
Roberto Chile / Cuba / 2006 / Doc / 37min
This page is to obtain ONLINE access to the Sands Films Cinema Club presentation of Sacha, A Child from Chernobyl on Tuesday 26th July
To attend in person, please CLICK HERE
Presented in collaboration with North and South London Cuba Solidarity Campaign with a special thank you for support the Havana Glasgow Film Festival have given us to enable this film show to take place.
In collaboration with North and South London Cuba Solidarity Campaign come and celebrate 26th July anniversary with a screening of “Sacha: Un Niño de Chernobyl”. Olexandr Savchenko, “Sacha,” was one year old when the explosion of the nuclear power plant Vladimir Ilich Lenin in 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 afterwards and doctors were unable to make a clear diagnosis because the healthcare system had collapsed while the former 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 with no improvement. 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.
The documentary is produced by the Argentine news agency Resumen Latinoamerica and includes interviews with doctors, nurses and interpreters
Roberto Chile, Maribel Acosta Damas I Argentina 2021
39min
Spanish with English subtitles
ALSO: ON THE SLOPES OF THE HIMALAYAS is a moving documentary on Cuban medical assistance to Pakistan in the wake of the massive earthquake that killed more than 75,000 Pakistanis, maimed over 100, 0000 and left more than 3.3 million homeless. Cuba sent hundreds of medical personnel, who provided the most extensive and in depth care, treating many more people.
Roberto Chile / Cuba / 2006 / Doc / 37min