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Disaster at Chernobyl
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Disaster at Chernobyl

2004-01-01 · 48 min · ★ 7.5

Documentary · History · TV Movie

The explosion at Chernobyl was ten times worse than the Hiroshima bomb and was due to a combination of human error and imperfect technology. An account of the sixty critical minutes prior to the explosion of the nuclear power plant on the night of April 26, 1986.

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Directors
Renny Bartlett
Production companies
Cineflix Productions, 3BM Television, Next Film Productions
Countries
Canada, United Kingdom
Status
Released

Top Cast

David MorrisseyDavid MorrisseySelf - Narrator (voice)
Igor SlavinskiyIgor SlavinskiyAnatoli Diatlov
Aleksander KhoroshkoAlexander Akimov
Volodya StepanenkoLeonid Toptunov
Aleksander KlimbutskiBoris Stolyarchuk
Volodymyr HolosniakVolodymyr HolosniakValeri Perevozchenko
Vladimir MamchurAlexander 'Sasha' Yuvchenko
Irina PavliukNatasha Yuvchenko
Nikita ChavininKirill Yuvchenko
Vladimir MelnykValeri Khodemechuk
Vladimir VelianikYuri Tregub
Denys HranchakDenys HranchakSasha Agulov
Vladimir IlenkoNicolai Fornin
Nikolai SteinbergSelf - Nuclear Physicist
Boris StolyarchukSelf - Chernobyl Survivor
Alexander YuvchenkoSelf - Chernobyl Survivor
Piers Paul ReadSelf - Writer
Sergei YankovskySelf - Chernobyl Investigator
Anatoli DiatlovSelf (archive footage)
Mikhail GorbachevMikhail GorbachevSelf (archive footage)

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