- 33 years after the disaster. 5 days and nights illegally in the restricted area, in Pripyat and on the Duga-1 antenna.
- Ice of Chernobyl is like picnic along the wayside, written by the Strugazki brothers, which was the literary template for Tarkowski's movie stalker.
The treatise on the thrill of the forbidden: entering the restricted zone of a damaged nuclear power plant, namely the one in Chernobyl. A radioactive matter. 33 years after the disaster.
5 days and nights illegally in the restricted area, in Pripyat and on the Duga-1 antenna.
The restricted area from a completely different point of view. No cellphone connection, no help from outside, all on your own. Together with STALKER we move illegally into the zone of alienation, also called the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Partly the children of former liquidators of the nuclear accident. At the first night we are stuck between different rivers and the marshes at some point and have to turn around. But then there is a way. We walk at night, stay in abandoned villages until we reach Pripyat. A formerly over 40000 inhabitants large city lies before us, uninhabited. A beauty spreads before us. But this beauty hurts too.
And you do not feel alone all the time. Are these just the ghosts of yesteryear or is there more?
We also climb onto the largest still existing, former listening antenna. Called Woodpecker and can we sleep up there at 140 meters above the ground? 5 days after which the feet ache, the shoulders do not want to carry the backpack anymore. But the impressions are stronger than any pain.
5 days and nights that are not only physically hard, but also changed something in our soul and heart. A journey that becomes more than just the illegal entry into the death zone!
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