Chernobyl (TV Mini Series)

The Happiness of All Mankind (2019)

Josef Altin: Soldier

Quotes 

• Soldier : You have to come with me.

  Old Woman Babushka : Why?

  Soldier : Because they told me, so now I'm telling you. Everyone in this village, everyone. It's not safe here. There's radiation in the air. What's wrong with you?

  Old Woman Babushka : Do you know how old I am?

  Soldier : I don't know. Old.

  Old Woman Babushka : I'm 82. I've lived here my whole life. Right here, that house, this place. What do I care about safe?

  Soldier : I have a job. Don't cause trouble.

  Old Woman Babushka : Trouble? You're not the first soldier to stand here with a gun. When I was 12, the revolution came - czar's men, then bolsheviks, boys like you marching in lines - they told us to leave. No. Then there was Stalin and his famine, the Holodomor - my parents died, two of my sisters died - they told the rest of us to leave. No. Then the Great War - German boys, Russian boys, more soldiers, more famine, more bodies - my brothers never came home, but I stayed, and I'm still here. After all that I have seen... so I should leave now, because of something I cannot see at all? No.

• [first lines] 

  Soldier : It's time to go. Did you hear me? This is an evacuation. Do you understand?