The survivors of Hiroshima
A vivid and compelling film by the German-born author Robert Jungk of the rebirth of the city of Hiroshima out of the atomic holocaust of August 1945.
Written by Robert Jungk.

Officially it is now a 'City of Peace' - the bustling modern industrial scene of Hiroshima where sixteen years ago an atomic bomb exploded in the summer sky. Today Hiroshima has been reborn. Into its congested streets are crammed more than half a million hard-working people, newcomers vastly outnumbering the survivors of that hideous day.
What has happened to these survivors? And what sort of place is Hiroshima in 1961? The distinguished author Robert Jungk, who is now an American citizen, visited Hiroshima to write a book about it and at the same time make a film. He spent weeks there among maimed and crippled people who lived through the explosion. He traced the gradual growth of the macabre radiation sickness which even today is killing off some of the survivors.
Ever since his school-days in Berlin, where he was arrested for anti-Nazi activities after the Reichstag fire, Robert Jungk has been a man of strong convictions. Children of the Ashes is a personal statement - about Hiroshima and about the civilisation we live in.