Swedish man retraces his search for family after tsunami hit

Описание: (23 Dec 2005)

22 December 2005
1. Carl Michael Bergman gets out of a van, holding Hannes, his 2 year-old son, at Fai Tha school, Khao Lak, where he sheltered on the night of December 26th, 2004, and other family members
2. Close up Carl Michael with youngest son Hannes
3. Teacher from the school greets Carl Michael
4. Close up Hannes clinging to Carl Michael's leg
5. Schoolchildren watch from balcony
6. Carl Michael shakes hands with school children
7. Close up Hannes as Thai children touch his skin, fascinated by his whiteness, Carl Michael kisses him
8. Wide shot schoolchildren crowd around Carl Michael
9. Close up Gunlog Sanner Norling, mother of Carl Michael's dead wife Cecilia
10. Nils Bergman, Carl Michael's eldest son, plays on floor as children crowd around
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Carl Michael Bergman, Tsunami survivor:
"Great, it's great, I am so happy to be here again. It's a great pleasure to see all these kids, they're so happy, so smiling and it's a great feeling. You know you want to be here to see how they have their life, and what you can do for them also. So we have collected some money and see what we can do for them. In Sweden, our friends want to help, you know, we want to do something back for them."

FILE: January 2005
12. Missing person tent
13. Carl Michael talking to authorities
14. STILL Photograph of Carl Michael's wife Cecilia
15. Various shots of the ruins of the Mukdara Hotel, where they were staying, Carl Michael searching the rubble

22 December 2005
16. Van arrives at the now partially-repaired Mukdara Hotel in Khao Lak
17. Carl Michael walks down through the repairing works going on at the hotel, carrying Nils
18. Workers chip tiles from swimming pool
19. Carl Michael waves at workers
20. Wide shot female workers smile
21. SOUNDBITE: (English) Carl Michael Bergman, Tsunami survivor:
"It's a mixed feelings. It's good. It's bad. All the memories come back very strong so I think I need to come back here many more times to cope with it, I think."
22. Family on beach
23. Close up Hannes
24. Hannes walks slowly backwards, away from waves, Nils is in background
25. Sea rushes in on sand
26. SOUNDBITE: (English) Carl Michael Bergman, Tsunami survivor:
"I have the same feeling today that I had one year ago, that it's a true miracle that anybody survived them, especially Hannes, a one and a half year old kid. So close to the wave, tumbling around here hearing water, drowning, being unconscious for a long time, pneumonia, it's a miracle. I can't really understand it, it's truly a miracle.He must have some high kind of spirit or God's with him or angels because the only thing I saw on him, I didn't see any bruises or wounds or anything. I saw a small small spot on his back and it could be made from anything you know, but everyone else from this hotel was having wounds all over their bodies. So it's like he had been protected somewhere and I can't understand it, can't believe it still. It's a miracle and I am so happy for that."
27. Various shots as family put orchids into the sea
28. Carl Michael close to tears, Hannes walks into shot and holds on to him
29. Hannes
30. Carl MIchael crying and his mother-in-law comforting him, pull out
31. Family on beach

STORYLINE:

A year ago the story of the Swedish toddler saved by a Thai princess from the Indian Ocean tsunami became one of the most famous survival tales of the disaster.


18 month old Hannes Bergman was caught in the torrent, with his mother, in the Khao Lak resort area of southern Thailand.

As she tired she handed him to a stranger.




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