Havana, September 17 (RHC)-- The documentary film "Sacha, un niño de Chernobyl" (Sacha, A Child of Chernobyl), directed by Cuban filmmakers Roberto Chile and Maribel Acosta Damas, was exhibited this week in Madrid, Spain, where it aroused standing ovations and countless expressions of admiration for Cuba, and the humanitarian, internationalist principle of its Revolution.

Maribel Acosta Damas explained that the 39-minute documentary narrates the story of Olexandr Savchenko, ‘Sacha’, one of the 26,000 boys and girls from Russia, Belarus, and the Ukraine who were treated in Cuba over a 21-year period after the 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl.

Produced by the Argentine news agency Resumen Latinoamericano, the documentary film presents the testimony of Sacha, his mother, and those of Cuban doctors, nurses, translators and other Cuban personnel involved in the humanitarian program, as well as footage of the disaster site in Ukraine.