Photo: FoNetFilming of the film "Chain Reaction" about the event at the Vinca Institute in which five of our scientists were irradiated in 1958 while, on the orders of Josip Broz, they were trying to build an atomic bomb is underway. Pavle Savić, then manager of the Institute, refused the order and was fired
It's Cold War time. The world is divided into two politically and militarily opposing blocs. Both have nuclear weapons. Fear of the imminence of nuclear war leads to a panicked attempt by many countries to secure such weapons, while science simultaneously tries to find a cure for nuclear radiation, as a result of the use of atomic bombs.
The story of the film unfolds in this atmosphere A chain reaction director and producer Dragan Bjelogrlić, who was announced to the media today.
The film is based on a true event that happened at the Vinca Institute on October 15, 1958, when five of our scientists were irradiated while they were trying to make an atomic bomb in a secret operation on the orders of Josip Broz.
Six of them entered the facility with a zero-power nuclear reactor marked RB, which was used only for experimental purposes: technical assistants Rosanda Dangubić, Draško Grujić, Živorad Bogojević and Stijepo Hajduković, as well as two physics graduates from the Faculty of Science Života Vranić and Radojko Maksic. Bogojević was not irradiated.
At the suggestion of the French doctor and professor Georges Mathieu, they were transplanted with bone marrow. It was the first human organ transplant in the world. More than 500 French people have offered their bone marrow to our scientists, risking their own lives.
The donors were Remon Castalje, car mechanic, father of two children; Marcel Pabillon, clerk, father of three children, Odette Draghi, housewife, mother of four children, Albert Biron, clerk, Spanish married to a French woman, father of two children and Leon Schwarzenberg, team doctor, father of two children.
Bone marrow transplantation was performed by the doctors of the "Kiri" hospital: prof. George Mate and Dr. Henri Zama, with the assistance of Dr. Remont Latarge and Dr. Jean-François Duplan, as well as doctors from Belgrade: Dr. Branislav Pendić, Dr. Zoran Đukić and Dr. Danica Kalić.
Cardiac surgeon Goran Milašinović, based on whose novel The case of Vinca wrote the script (Vuk Ršumović and Dragan Bjelogrlić) reminded that in the history of medicine this transplant was not recognized as the first, because "back then only blood compatibility was known and not tissue compatibility".
The case of our scientists from Vinci was of world importance, but it was hidden for years because the cause of the accident was thought to be an error during a scientific experiment. Yugoslavia at that time did not want to talk about its failures, there was a conspiracy of silence for everyone involved in this event.
As Goran Milašinović previously told Tanjug, Pavle Savić, then director of the Vinča Institute, assessed in his analysis that human error caused the accident, that protection was insufficient, and that young technicians and two students were involved, none of whom were competent for a scientific experiment. such as measuring a chain reaction. Thanks to Savić's French professional acquaintances, the irradiated scientists were organized to go to Paris for treatment within 24 hours.
Transcripts are known in which Milovan Đilas and Aleksandar Ranković force Pavle Savić to start the project. He refuses and is replaced. "You do, but outside of Vinča, it's a scientific institute," Savić is quoted as saying in the transcripts.
"The objective truth is that the irradiation happened during a scientific experiment, and whether it was part of making a bomb - no one knows," said Goran Milašinović.
Considering that it is based on a true event and historical figures, the film is a mixture of fiction and reality, said Dragan Bjelogrlić, who defined it as a psychological drama with elements of a thriller, announced the differences compared to his previous films and singled out the framing, as well as that it will to play the vice-president of the SFRY and the head of the State Security at the time, Aleksandar Leka Raković.
Pavle Savić in Chain reaction Predrag is played by Miki Manojlović, and the sick scientists are played by Alisa Radaković, Jovan Jovanović and Radivoje Raša Bukvić.
The film is a French co-production, and the distributor in France is Wide Bunch, and one of the main roles is played by the French actor Alexis Manenti.
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