The dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima was the greatest single catastrophe man has ever inflicted upon man. But even from this clinical, impersonal mass-annihilation a great many people did come out alive - though burdened with guilt, fear, and with the danger of possible radiation after-effects.
To commemorate the day of the Hiroshima bomb, Horizon presents a film about the thoughts and feelings of the survivors. Based on interviews with a great many of them, it presents an impression of what it is like to go through the A-bomb experience.
How does man behave in a cataclysm? How can people, or even a whole city, live with - and live by - the memory of such a shattering event? And in what sense are we all survivors of Hiroshima'?
Made in collaboration with DR ROBERT JAY LIPTON, Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University.
Voices MADI HEDD, JOANNA WAER, LYNDON BROOK and TRADER FAULKNER
Film cameraman DEREK BANKS
Film editor TONY HEAVEN
Editor PETER GOODCHILD
Written and directed by ROBERT VAS