Disaster at Chernobyl

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Director: Renny Bartlett

Date of release: 01 Jan 2004

Description

The explosion at Chernobyl was ten times worse than that at Hiroshima and was due to a combination of human error and imperfect technology. Using a real-time split-screen format reminiscent of the hit series, 24, this programme examines the 60 critical minutes leading up to the explosion at the power station on 26th April 1986. Each minute unfolds narrating the events from the perspectives of key characters involved including Chernobyl's deputy chief engineer and his staff in the control room as well as innocent bystanders, the wife of one of Chernobyl's workers and two fishermen working in Chernobyl's warm waste waters. With an extraordinary combination of drama and state of the art CGI graphics, Disaster at Chernobyl climaxes with the reconstruction of the final seconds leading to the disaster, the explosion itself and its terrifying aftermath.

Extra

Language	English Pусский
Actors	Mikhail Gorbachev David Morrissey Nikolai Steinberg Alexander Yuvchenko Boris Stolyarchuk Piers Paul Read Anatoli Diatlov Sergei Yankovsky Igor Slavinskiy Aleksander Khoroshko Volodya Stepanenko Aleksander Klimbutski Wolodymyr Holosnyak Vladimir Mamchur Irina Pavliuk Nikita Chavinin Vladimir Melnyk Vladimir Velianik Denis Granchak Vladimir Ilenko