Vesna Vulovic - Intervju - Grand 2002 — Transcript
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- 0:00Here in front of me on 10 meters away an unusual lady is sitting. It will be a
- 0:06place for different people from different areas. She is unusual by many things, but she is
- 0:12not only unusual, she is very unusual. She fell from
- 0:1710.500 meters height i and survived - Vesna Vulović
- 0:49Vesna, good evening and welcome
- 0:52of course, we have known each other for such a long time and we are even
- 0:58friends, now tell me, do you consider yourself as an unusual person or very
- 1:04unusual or besides, you are in Guinnes World Book
- 1:10you won a gold medal and so on and it has been
- 1:1530 years and 8 months since then on the other hand it seems like it was yesterday.
- 1:21You remember it well, it happened a day before Saint Sava holiday.
- 1:2826. of january 1972. Where did that happen? 1972. on january 26th above the village
- 1:36Srbská Kamenice (Serbian Stones) in Czech Republic my airplane has exploded DC9
- 1:45with passengers and crew and of course I mean not of course, I was the only survivor.
- 1:53Before Saint Sava on 26. january in 17:02 My airplane exploded above the
- 2:01village Srpska Kamenica and I fell into that village
- 2:06I have survived and revived This year i found out from my doctor who
- 2:14saved my life that I was dead for 4 hours Clinically dead and that I woke up on the
- 2:22Saint Sava day in Srpska Kamenica. I've heard you have also been operated
- 2:27You've been on operation, right? No, no, no, for 7 days they didn't do anything
- 2:33no operations were done, they have only put me back together
- 2:38And after a month you found out that you were the only survivor.
- 2:42What kind of feeling that was?
- 2:45at all when I found out I was the Well, I don't remember that
- 2:47only survivor, they said that I have experienced huge shock and that they gave me
- 2:51morphine injections to calm me down to simply calm me down, so I don't remember
- 2:58I woke up every day asking where am I and what is going on with me
- 3:03They always told me the same story and then after a month I've realized that that's it
- 3:08I mean if I tell you that story like this It's funny and sad at the same time
- 3:14You said that the doctors saved you, but I've heard that one woodsman has also saved you.
- 3:20Uh, Bruno Henke, right? Bruno Henke Woodsman who at the same year 1972
- 3:29got a granddaughter and named her Vesna, she is Vesna Henke
- 3:34Did he find you in the woods? Yes, he did. I was watching a movie last night
- 3:39Japanese crew at the moment is working on documentary about me, one
- 3:45Japanese television and our (Serbian) television gave them a clip with those first
- 3:51moments which were recorded by that is also one interesting story
- 3:57one young man who graduated from the Academy in Czechia, in Prague and returned home
- 4:02did his military service and came on 15th january that year to visit his
- 4:08friends, he was there for a few days and when my accident happened, he was among
- 4:13the first ones who went there and recorded those remains of the plane
- 4:20recorded me there half-dead I really don't know what to say
- 4:24I was watching that movie last night and he he is now a dean on that University, but I
- 4:32am not sure whether is that Faculty of Applied Arts or what, I was supposed to meet him these days
- 4:36You said it was my misfortune, but I can't tell if it's misfortune if someone
- 4:41stays alive or is huge lucky. It was a big accident, big accident.
- 4:45Many people would say that after that that you will never even travel again, but
- 4:50as I have heard, you've been flying You've been smiling as if nothing happened.
- 4:55Of course, we Serbs are like that, Way to go, only our people can do that.
- 5:00Only we can do it, exactly, thank you for your time, for visiting us
- 5:05Our unique guest in every possible way Vesna Vulović, thank you
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