this film be certainly a testament to the power of image . i defy anyone to watch this and not feel the pain of the child feature . sadly and though and it shock value be not match by actually bother to substantiate it case . the use of those tragically deformed child may have great emotional impact and but the documentary do not bother to actually provide any evidence that their deformity be the fault of chernobyl . that because there isn not any and or for that matter any evidence that the level of birth defect have go up in affected region ( with the exception of baby of pregnant woman who actually work on the cleanup at the time ) . a further claim be that the infant mortality rate be three time that of the rest of europe . this be true and as far a it go . but the imr be no high than belarus post soviet neighbor and and can be explain by the decline standard of living and quality of medical facility . i could go on and but just about every other claim make in the documentary be either mislead and strongly dispute in the scientific literature ( i make the effort to check after watch the documentary ) and or plain bogus . if youre a film student and this film be indeed technically brilliant . but it base on a complete and utter distortion of the real picture .