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- 1. 1:23:45 May 6, 2019
- Plant workers and firefighters work to control an explosion at a Soviet nuclear power plant.
- 2. Please Remain Calm May 13, 2019
- Nuclear physicist Ulana Khomyuk fears that a second explosion could devastate the continent.
- 3. Open Wide, O Earth May 20, 2019
- Lyudmilla Ignatenko ignores warnings about her firefighter husband's contamination.
Chernobyl is a TV mini series about the 1986 nuclear disaster and its aftermath. See the cast, crew, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, soundtracks, and more on IMDb.
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Chernobyl is a 2019 historical drama television miniseries that revolves around the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 and the cleanup efforts that followed. The series was created and written by Craig Mazin and directed by Johan Renck. It features an ensemble cast led by Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson, and Paul Ritter.
AwardCategoryNominee (s)ResultJinx Godfrey and Simon Smith (for ...WonTelevision Programs of the YearChernobylWonLuke HullWonAssociation of Motion Picture Sound ...Excellence in sound for a Television ...ChernobylWonMeet the actors and crew of the HBO drama series Chernobyl, based on the 1986 nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union. See their roles, episodes, photos and more at TV Guide.
- Johan Renck, Craig Mazin
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- Valery Legasov
- Boris Shcherbina
- Anatoly Dyatlov
- Vasily and Lyudmila Ignatenko
- Chernobyl Reactor Operators
Played by Jared Harris in HBO's Chernobyl, Valery Legasov was chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster and a prominent member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Legasov committed suicide two years after the Chernobyl disaster—a 1993 articlein the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists attributed his death to disillusionment over...
Where Legasov is the principled scientist, Skargard's character, the real-life Deputy Prime Minister Scherbina, represents the reluctant Soviet government. Shcherbina would rather sweep the Chernobyl disaster under the rug rather than deal with the consequences honestly. He can be seen in the trailer, downplaying the threat of radiation on the site...
Dyatlov was the deputy chief engineer at Chernobyl and the supervisor for the disastrous experiment that resulted in the April 26 explosion. He was sentenced to ten years in a labor camp (and served five) for his role in the meltdown. Despite absorbing a near-deadly dose of radiation, Dyatlov lived until 1995.
Firefighter Vasily Ignatenko was one of 28 first responders, including Power Station employees, who died from radiation in the weeks following the explosion. In Chernobyl, he's played by Adam Nagaitis, who has acted alongside Harris before, in The Terror. His wife Lyudmila Ignatenko, played by Jessie Buckley, is also a real person, who described th...
The HBO miniseries includes many of the real people operating the reactor at the time of the meltdown. Alexander Akimov (Sam Troughton) was the night crew shift supervisor during the early morning hours test that resulted in the reactor explosion. He was initially opposed to conducting the test, but Dyatlov threatened his job. Leonid Toptunov (Robe...
May 7, 2019 · The show features an ensemble cast, including Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgard and Emily Watson, to dramatise the world's worst ever nuclear disaster and what happened afterwards. In the early...
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It features an ensemble cast led by Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson, and Paul Ritter. The series was produced by HBO in the United States and Sky UK in the United Kingdom. Quick Facts Chernobyl, Genre ... Close. The five-part series premiered simultaneously in the United States on May 6, 2019, and in the United Kingdom on May 7.
