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Chernobyl( 2019)

TV-MADrama
87%
User
Score

What is the cost of lies?

Overview

The true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history: the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.

  1. Craig Mazin

    Creator

Series Cast

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    Jared Harris

    Valery Legasov

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    Stellan Skarsgård

    Boris Shcherbina

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    Emily Watson

    Ulana Khomyuk

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    Paul Ritter

    Anatoly Dyatlov

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    Jessie Buckley

    Lyudmilla Ignatenko

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    Adam Nagaitis

    Vasily Ignatenko

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    Sam Troughton

    Alexandr Akimov

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    Robert Emms

    Leonid Toptunov

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    Con O'Neill

    Viktor Bryukhanov

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    Adrian Rawlins

    Nikolai Fomin

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    Alan Williams

    KGB Chairman Charkov

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    David Dencik

    Mikhail Gorbachev

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    Mark Lewis Jones

    General Pikalov

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    Ralph Ineson

    General Tarakanov

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    Barry Keoghan

    Pavel

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    Alex Ferns

    Glukhov

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    Fares Fares

    Bacho

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    Michael McElhatton

    Prosecutor Andrei Stepashin

Current Season

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Miniseries

2019 | 5 Episodes

Miniseries of Chernobyl premiered on May 06 2019

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Review 4Discussion

A review by Peter McGinn

10
Written by Peter McGinn on Sat Apr 04 2020
This is one of the best dramatic series I have watched in years. It can be difficult to maintain tension and drama describing true events that the viewer might be already aware of to some extent, but this program manages it nicely. It is a little predictable in how it tells the story, by which I mean it uses several angles from different characters' points of view: the scientists and administrators representing the Russian government, the employees of the power plant and other disposable workers, and of course the masses of people caught up in the disaster; and finally, for a close-up look, the...

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Facts

Status

Ended

Status

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Type

Miniseries

Original Language

English

Keywords

  • based on true story
  • miniseries
  • nuclear catastrophe
  • 1980s
  • chernobyl