The Voice of Ludmila

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A collection of texts relating to the documentary film Ludmila's Voice. Filmmaker/author's statement on the back cover:'In the spring of 1986, Ludmila Ignatenko is 23 years old, in love with Vasili and five months pregnant. They live in Pripyat, the newly built town beside the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Vasili is a fireman, Ludmila works at the "Kitchen" factory. On the night of the 25th of April, Vasili is scrambled. "The nuclear power plant is burning. Go to sleep. I'll wake you when I come home", he says to Ludmila.'This book contains her story. But also the story of the film Ludmila's Voice.'I hope that word and image work together when Ludmila journeys in her memories, to Vasili's grave in Moscow and to their former home in the ghost town of Pripyat, beside the wrecked nuclear power plant in Chernobyl.'