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Status
Released
Release
2004
Runtime
48m
"A catastrophe ten times worse than Hiroshima"
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.
20 Cast Members
David Morrissey
Self - Narrator (voice)
Igor Slavinskiy
Anatoli Diatlov
Aleksander Khoroshko
Alexander Akimov
Volodya Stepanenko
Leonid Toptunov
Aleksander Klimbutski
Boris Stolyarchuk
Volodymyr Holosniak
Valeri Perevozchenko
Vladimir Mamchur
Alexander 'Sasha' Yuvchenko
Irina Pavliuk
Natasha Yuvchenko
Nikita Chavinin
Kirill Yuvchenko
Vladimir Melnyk
Valeri Khodemechuk
Vladimir Velianik
Yuri Tregub
Denys Hranchak
Sasha Agulov
Vladimir Ilenko
Nicolai Fornin
Nikolai Steinberg
Self - Nuclear Physicist
Boris Stolyarchuk
Self - Chernobyl Survivor
Alexander Yuvchenko
Self - Chernobyl Survivor
Piers Paul Read
Self - Writer
Sergei Yankovsky
Self - Chernobyl Investigator
Anatoli Diatlov
Self (archive footage)
Mikhail Gorbachev
Self (archive footage)
