Journey Inside Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone

Journey Inside Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone | Short Film Showcase

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Christiaan and Kseniya Welzel ventured into Chernobyl's exclusion zone on the 27th anniversary of the plant's nuclear disaster and documented their experience. "Beautiful Ghost: A Filmmaker's Look at Chernobyl" attempts to capture the location's eerie beauty and convey the feelings the Welzels felt there. "Yes it's scary, it's a little eerie, but at the same time it was very peaceful," Kseniya says.
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@AW-ge7gc 4 жыл бұрын

50 thousand people used to live here.... Now its a ghost town -Cpt. MacMillan

@mosieinc3080 4 жыл бұрын

Bjirr COD mw 1 all ghillied up

@hackdog1258 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah good days

@eachocanaya7469 3 жыл бұрын

feat. McTavish

@shubhankar5904 3 жыл бұрын

@@eachocanaya7469 price* idiot

@rohitprasad3009 3 жыл бұрын

Ikr

@thunderbeast1854 3 жыл бұрын

It's 1:23 am 26th April 2021 35 years on.... Remembering those who lost their lives,and those who's lives were changed forever.

@SushanthSD 3 жыл бұрын

Well I'm late sry, but R.I.P everyone who lost their lives.

@roberthrodebert9263 8 жыл бұрын

When you have to explain what you want people to feel when viewing your footage it means the footage fails.

@matejnikolovski2346 8 жыл бұрын

totaly true

@abelisraelcruzayuso4682 8 жыл бұрын

+1000

@chronic295 8 жыл бұрын

I could not have said it better.

@jeffkimmel3254 6 жыл бұрын

Robert's Art Studio Well said! I was thinking the same thing. If your stuff doesn't tell your story without you having to explain it, your not a filmmaker, your a storyteller... and more importantly, interpretation is individual, perhaps differed from person to person, it's not the "artists" job to tell you what to see, it's the fact that it's many different things to many different eyes that makes it "art".

4 жыл бұрын

Did he have to explain that though?

@darkvader7231 3 жыл бұрын

There is no beauty in apocolypse, just death, destruction and sadness. RIP all those that died!!🙏😢

@Shu-gm2xx 5 жыл бұрын

Here after HBO mini series

@vaishnavkoka1007 4 жыл бұрын

@chingkheimang4766 4 жыл бұрын

Yes

@mdanas0007 4 жыл бұрын

Yes

@ronaldtartaglia4459 3 жыл бұрын

Why do you care?

@hasanjunaied7229 3 жыл бұрын

I am aslo

@WouldntULikeToKnow. 5 жыл бұрын

I think that saying that this is not a sad place is disrespectful to those who lost their lives or those who had their lives completely disrupted. It *is* a sad place.

@mariemac5347 4 жыл бұрын

176Blue exactly!

@SKVMs 11 ай бұрын

It is not a sad place, it used to be, it no more is, it's now a beautiful, peaceful graveyard, a reminder of our mistakes and mortality and also of nature and morality

@Burmeseti 9 ай бұрын

If I had died there, I wouldn't care what people thought of it. I would hope that once I'm dead, I have better things to do than care about how the living feel.

@nishittiwari9337 3 жыл бұрын

I just want to know that the lady shown here talking about beauty.... Is she alive today means unaffected from radiation😶

@allexus4797 2 жыл бұрын

Its not very radioactive in the city only near the reactor and certian spots

@abelisraelcruzayuso4682 8 жыл бұрын

beauty? peaceful? there's nothing more sinister in the world, ffs

@frozeneternity93 8 жыл бұрын

I don't think he was talking about the nuclear fallout, the absence of people

@rustyshackleford1508 6 жыл бұрын

Abel Israel Cruz Ayuso Get out of here, STALKER

@mmender1590 4 жыл бұрын

I mean, the way that nature totally reclaimed it and even how endangered horses are making a comeback in the exclusion zone is pretty nice

@rosepetalrye14 4 жыл бұрын

@ for sure

@Priyo866 2 жыл бұрын

Lol what a little crybaby. Nature is truly beautiful in Chernobyl in the absence of people. Especially with all the endangered animals living freely there (at least until the poachers came).

@ranoknas 8 жыл бұрын

Stalker, Metro and COD: Modern Warfare!

@rickiex 8 жыл бұрын

+VoidX COD4:modern warfare. as long as its not mw2 lol

@rickiex 8 жыл бұрын

VoidX yup same, cod4 mw1 is the best one.

@deepfriedicecream576 4 жыл бұрын

Metro doesn’t take place in Chernobyl and Chernobyl is in the Ukraine, not Russia. That’s why there’s Stalker Shadows of Chernobyl and Call of Pripyat bc Pripyat is a near by city, the closest city I think. But yea that’s all that went through my head too

@josephlowry4320 3 жыл бұрын

It feels like you're actually in Metro, the whole power station and the area reminds me of the game.

@shivam_kumar8792 3 жыл бұрын

Who came here from FactTechz (India) ! It means that You all are legend ! 😊😊😊

@sarkarrantu3910 3 жыл бұрын

Me 😊

@dollydevi1179 3 жыл бұрын

@anshuk712 3 жыл бұрын

Mai aya hoon

@preetirana9513 3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@robstark6494 3 жыл бұрын

Me 😅

@Abhishek-gd4ef 3 жыл бұрын

Seeing those masks is equivalent to seeing those many skulls.💀😬

@sasmitaswain2834 3 жыл бұрын

Who is here after Facttechz's Video?

@successx6382 3 жыл бұрын

@hhbhh7255 3 жыл бұрын

@MadaraUchiha-cc4zq 3 жыл бұрын

@Anitamore154 3 жыл бұрын

Me too like others

@abhiabhinay6999 Жыл бұрын

Lots of memories lots of love. That place and people had seen many. Everyone who lost their life would have known each other very well. They would have helped each other. Would have spent beautiful days together until this disaster happened

@chandlerjoseph3460 8 жыл бұрын

That place does look so beautiful in its own way.

@candicehoneycutt4318 8 жыл бұрын

There's something oddly beautiful about abandoned places

@androiduser7871 3 жыл бұрын

😶😶😶 Oohhhh you want to see the beauty in the apocalypse & how peaceful it is that is very disrespectful for the many who died

@dineshnanduri8470 2 жыл бұрын

After watching Netflix Chernobyl movie ....I cried alot.......by watching that horrible incident.........

@mdashif8196 2 жыл бұрын

It's just Nature taking everything back ❤️

@KomalKumari-me3pr 3 жыл бұрын

Anyone after alakh sir 👇👇👇👇

@tm-gh6zk 3 жыл бұрын

@ritupandey40 3 жыл бұрын

@sujaltripathi3830 3 жыл бұрын

2:51 swimming pool of pubg. ..

@mrcool9397 3 жыл бұрын

No warzone

@srijagathi6686 2 жыл бұрын

Rip to everyone who lost their lives so sad

@psmanici4 8 жыл бұрын

The *standing* water in the area is irradiated, any water coming down through a ceiling is obviously rainwater and so would not be dangerously radioactive

@lewisdoherty7621 8 жыл бұрын

+psmanici4 Since the fallout would tend to build up on the buildings' roofs, even with the many episodes of rain, the water finding its way from the now failing roofs probably carry a concentration of radioactive materials. The radioactive materials on the ground would be more likely absorbed by the ground. Those buildings during the fire probably had their windows and doors closed. There would have been some radioactivity seeping into them anyway, but the radioactive soot would have blanketed the roofs. The heavy radioactive atoms would have pressed themselves to the roof and rainwater flowing over them over the many years may have not dislodged them till the roofs began to fail.

@psmanici4 8 жыл бұрын

***** hmm, very true!

@JustSomeCanadianGuy Жыл бұрын

It's that Ferris wheel that's so iconic.

@urpal4806 5 ай бұрын

Even the background music cant hide the sadness of the region

@jdmlove1848 8 жыл бұрын

Go check out Exploring With Josh, he just did a series on Chernobyl. Kind of in Vlog style tho. His videos are awesome!

@XxvaxionxX 8 жыл бұрын

RIP Christiaan and Kseniya Welzel. BTW Call of Duty Modern Warfare. Exact same place. the buildings in the snow, the swimming pool and you had to carry your injured mate to a extraction point fighting solo with all the enemies.

@xtrmelyxtreme6187 8 жыл бұрын

I remember that. keep dieing on that mission because I had a shotgun and SMG

@Jozombies115 7 жыл бұрын

My favorite mission in the remastered version. There is a camo called "exclusion zone" in it and I got here looking for the backstory. And I'm the 115th comment :)

@hezikiah4689 3 жыл бұрын

are they dead as in?

@josephlowry4320 3 жыл бұрын

Is it true?

@ysabelle_nds 2 жыл бұрын

wait..they died..? I mean the filmmakers who are in this video

@Icewave1000 2 жыл бұрын

This is beautiful

@Mickebeto 8 жыл бұрын

2:14 theres somebody in a room

@mariyas3645 4 жыл бұрын

Exactly where?

4 жыл бұрын

@@mariyas3645 In the 2nd story 2nd window from the left.

@cheapstonegd6296 4 жыл бұрын

Looks quite like a person yea. Idk what it is tho, doesn't seem to move...

@neildavis4784 4 жыл бұрын

Is it just me or is it like Chernobyl diaries

@aryamanchauhan2531 4 жыл бұрын

Ostentatious Savant can you pls give more detail

@ayaddar4792 3 жыл бұрын

where can i see the full documentary?

@daniduvlogs6301 4 жыл бұрын

0:28 i like this track

@daddyshark7332 4 жыл бұрын

In the loving memory of field commander Soap mc tavish

@zombiefighterof1987 7 жыл бұрын

I am both happy and disappointed that there are no snorks, chimeras or bloodsuckers in the zone.

@cirvis240 8 жыл бұрын

Cod 4 anybody?

@cratoz2 8 жыл бұрын

Best mission in the entire call of duty franchise.

@eduzappa18 8 жыл бұрын

fucking dogs

@mithu2cool 6 жыл бұрын

Best mission

@pendantcetemps...1016 5 жыл бұрын

Capitaine Macmillan and the lieutenant Price. Dope

@acenavy9274 3 жыл бұрын

Mylta power erangel

@SKVMs 11 ай бұрын

It indeed is a beautiful place, a reminder of our mistakes, and that how beautiful it is to be with the nature, it's a graveyard, ever so peaceful, yes melancholic, but peaceful

@narsilreforged 2 ай бұрын

Exactly what is beautiful about something equivalent to a holocaust gas chamber?

@sullyhirsch1193 6 жыл бұрын

I love the soundtrack is there a app for separating the soundtrack and the guy who speaks so I'm left only with a song? If anyone knows please tell me

@Rapboykkk 3 жыл бұрын

search vocal remover online..rdx izotope can help u

@johnsteelman1410 4 жыл бұрын

I use to have a girl friend from Belarus, Ukraine ( now lives in Moscow ) that was affected by the fall out from the Chernobyl explosion. She has trouble talking. Something wrong with her throat.....

@nikhilsivadasan8265 2 жыл бұрын

Will visit soon

@shikhasharma4431 3 жыл бұрын

After physics wallah sir's video on charnobyl 😃

@uddipandas854 3 жыл бұрын

me too

@aryanjain4209 3 жыл бұрын

exactlyyyy

@MaximumDiver 8 жыл бұрын

Destination Truth with Josh Gates went to investigate and they captured some pretty neat stuff up there....Creepy

@javierabelardogamarra2547 4 жыл бұрын

This place was polluted with radiation not cursed ok.

@Paul-cc7xw 5 жыл бұрын

That's where zachaev gets snipe in chernombly

@nekomasteryoutube3232 7 жыл бұрын

If i ever get the chance to go with a friend, I will probably constantly yell out S.T.A.L.K.E.R stuff like "Get out of here Stalker!" or "Cheeki Breeki"

@Bbaggettrealtalk 7 жыл бұрын

How does she go in there without protection when the zone is still not safe?

@TECHNICALENDEAVOUR 5 жыл бұрын

@@HenrikStidsen but what about the effect it will have on tourists

@miharbi00 8 жыл бұрын

Damn, I missed stalker. I should play that game again.

@Kamjam1000 8 жыл бұрын

try the MISERY Mod for CoP

@tinkoder3675 5 жыл бұрын

2:52 PUBG map *School*

@AmithTechTips 4 жыл бұрын

yaaa bc

@charliepea 2 жыл бұрын

My bucket list, if I can get there.... so scared of getting rad sickness.

@rajarshiroy6300 3 жыл бұрын

I have one thing to say :: Americans don't even know just how much sacrifice it took from the Soviets to bring Chernobyl under control. Edit:: Decades later they are here for FILMOGRAPHY !!

@springsummer7138 2 жыл бұрын

Did the Americans cause it?

@rajarshiroy6300 2 жыл бұрын

@@springsummer7138 used it in their Capitalist propagandas

@yrkjrk2972 2 жыл бұрын

1. The Americans had the 3-mile island disaster, so while it was nearly as bad as Chernobyl (because the American government took action to stop it from becoming a catastrophe), they know what it is to suffer. 2. Don't exclude the Japanese who suffered from 2 atomic bombs and Fukushima. If you thought the Soviets and their lack of quality reactors had it bad, try visiting parts of Japan that are still irradiated, nearly 80 years after.

@aiyamr.1528 3 жыл бұрын

A small mistake can turn into a disaster Think before taking any decisions

@SaryKhairy 4 жыл бұрын

Hope to visit this place someday!

@bhawnajethwa2127 3 жыл бұрын

No one is allowed to go there due to uranium is said to be it is now also active . Plz tell how did you went there without protection

@shivangisingh1927 5 жыл бұрын

Here after Chernobyl miniseries

@allifazhar 2 жыл бұрын

People of Chernobyl were told to leave there houses for 4 days,and they never returned back till date 🥺🥺

@alisonvlogs619 3 жыл бұрын

Those who came here after watching mallu traveller video like here...

@Don____ 3 жыл бұрын

🙋

@sohamlonkar1026 Жыл бұрын

Can anybody plz tell me what this type of music is called. Really obsessed with it#

@rosepetalrye14 4 жыл бұрын

"Find the beauty in the apocalypse" Me who has been waiting for an apocalypse: :0

@pratibhamishra9500 3 жыл бұрын

Here after Facttez😞😞😞

@NSVlogz 3 жыл бұрын

(മലയാളീസ്) Mallu travelerintay video kandittu vannavar oundo

@Jeffrey808 8 жыл бұрын

Is it actually 'Okay' to walk around? I am just extremely curious! I thought it is very dangerous to be in there.

@thegamingdweeb4689 8 жыл бұрын

+Jeff Choi Its not nearly as irradiated, they can walk there without gear but its not safe to inhabit the area permanently. Not that a whole lot a would live there after all that has happened there.

@akankshapravin1418 4 жыл бұрын

The place has been thoroughly washed with detergents and water.... but still some of the elements were absorbed by soil, and can seen settled on window sills, doors... you just have to be careful. Wear proper clothes, be well equipped with gadgets, get yourself a tour guide , as they know the place well, it's better to travel in group than travelling solo. You have to follow few guidelines of ukrainain government, it is on their site, or you can simply Google it ; it's for your safety. P.s. don't touch animals, no matter how cute they appear;)

@deepfriedicecream576 4 жыл бұрын

There’s people that refuse to leave Chernobyl and stay living in the area

@vanswa177 8 жыл бұрын

Was that one mission in cod 4 based in this area...it looks familiar.

@camilleshiii5880 8 жыл бұрын

yes! hahaha

@mrviphd7307 8 жыл бұрын

yeah it was :d

@Taffy84 8 жыл бұрын

Already journeyed there years ago in the STALKER game series.

@abeeragulkhattak25 2 жыл бұрын

Do you guys wear masks when you go there ? I’m sorry this is a late reply

@leviackerman_kk 5 жыл бұрын

I saw this masks room from google earth.....and it was scary but exciting.

@chaoslegend3707 3 жыл бұрын

whats the name of the music

@mrmshifan 8 жыл бұрын

After apocalypse

@gamingwithphysho3952 2 жыл бұрын

Is there is any radiation

@amangupta3772 3 жыл бұрын

From facttech

@liquidmetaldream 8 жыл бұрын

Detroit?

@boredoli 2 жыл бұрын

“The water did touch the radiation and the fuel but combined with the fuel and rods and -Explosion noise- uhh I gotta go bye”

@garasilucu 3 жыл бұрын

May I use some of this video (just a few seconds) to add to my video as a visual illustration entitled "These are the 5 Lost Cities in Human History", I will include the source of this video in the video and the video description on credit. Best Regards, Isa ansari 07 Bolehkah Saya menggunakan sebagian dari video ini (hanya beberapa detik) untuk dimasukan kedalam video saya sebagai ilustrasi visual dengan judul "Inilah 5 Kota Yang Hilang Dalam Sejarah Manusia", saya akan mencantumkan sumber video ini didalam video dan deskripsi videonya sebagai kredit. Salam Hormat, Isa Ansari 07

@1NS8__ 3 жыл бұрын

Because of some people the whole country suffered !!!!!!!!!

@timrichard1246 5 жыл бұрын

like the world after human s extinction,everything goes back to nature

@springsummer7138 2 жыл бұрын

Beauty in the apocalypse!!! Whoever mouthed this needs a reality check.

@DemarMerka 8 жыл бұрын

I wanna visit this place.

@Raphael18 5 жыл бұрын

Me too. Soo???

@lokz1639 5 жыл бұрын

@@Raphael18 oh I wanna get Cancer too!

@michaeljohnston6374 5 жыл бұрын

chernobyl is forbidden the public isn't allowed.

@SaryKhairy 4 жыл бұрын

@@michaeljohnston6374 How she's there if it's forbidden?

@tuanvandersluis4433 3 жыл бұрын

the people of pripyat never want this. but it haprened.

@chaoslegend3707 3 жыл бұрын

they have the golden playbutton

@KironManuelCards 4 жыл бұрын

There are lots of such places even in Asia.

@joenildelumen4798 3 жыл бұрын

here after watching the movie, Chernobyl diaries

@sushant.1242 3 жыл бұрын

Here after fattechh like👍👍👍👍

@lol94632 8 жыл бұрын

looks like the Last of Us setting

@rosepetalrye14 4 жыл бұрын

facts

@hackdog1258 3 жыл бұрын

PUBG COD

@MyResponseWouldBe 3 жыл бұрын

This reminds me of the mission on call of duty that's the same spot the empty pool the ferris wheel drive wow

@miniondave1158 Жыл бұрын

It's based off this... .

@adn8889 4 жыл бұрын

What happened dear friend I will seen really once where is this place really sad ...dear friend pls contact you

@lazyhl1994 8 жыл бұрын

this reminds me of one of the campaign mission from call of duty modern warfare

@momchaz1 8 жыл бұрын

Where you shoot the guy for like a mile away

@davidsimounplaza7275 4 жыл бұрын

2:52 the dogs

@jamsheedpalliparamban7481 3 жыл бұрын

Mallu❤

@Don____ 3 жыл бұрын

🥰

@sillyfella2009 3 жыл бұрын

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 looks great

@rumpabanik8194 4 жыл бұрын

50000 people used to live here now its a ghost town!!

@frighteningenius 2 жыл бұрын

2:50 the extraction point 4 from COD4 MW

@thewitcher0752 2 жыл бұрын

Here after reading NCERT

@sheesh7884 3 жыл бұрын

Were's The Friendly Wolf's?

@bloodymonkey1464 3 жыл бұрын

Wow I didn't realize this map on cod 4 to

@user-xv1mu2qu5u 3 жыл бұрын

i came here after jeremy clarkson breakdowned at chernobyl

@MostPowerfulPMofIndia 3 жыл бұрын

I want to see Pripyat

@saipradeep2547 4 жыл бұрын

Take the tresspaser to infirmatory

@maniputtar 6 жыл бұрын

Back to the 80s

@moria1413 5 жыл бұрын

*put headphones*

@mayaakisses 3 жыл бұрын

Here just because I found it on KZfaq 😎

@javierabelardogamarra2547 4 жыл бұрын

I will be like , I'm in scenario of resident evil 4 , heck yeah

@kawcherkabir85 8 жыл бұрын

I think this is where goosebuster flim made. ....

@flashpointprdx 8 жыл бұрын

love me some goosebusters

@kawcherkabir85 8 жыл бұрын

+Juan Vazquez .....I don't get it

@shubrochakroborty5918 2 жыл бұрын

2 person fighting and whole nation is suffering.

@crimerrya 3 жыл бұрын

here after the stalker 2 trailer!

@SachinSingh-gg9md Жыл бұрын

Why this girl didn't wore any mask

@stas_polessky 5 жыл бұрын

I was here

@vigneshsajith 4 жыл бұрын

Nuclear power is too powerful for human beings to handle..