Disaster at Chernobyl
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.
Renny Bartlett
Renny Bartlett
Casts & Crew
David Morrissey
Igor Slavinskiy
Aleksander Khoroshko
Volodya Stepanenko
Aleksander Klimbutski
Wolodymyr Holosnyak
Vladimir Mamchur
Irina Pavliuk
Nikita Chavinin
Vladimir Melnyk
Vladimir Velianik
Denis Granchak
Vladimir Ilenko
Nikolai Steinberg
Boris Stolyarchuk
Alexander Yuvchenko
Piers Paul Read
Sergei Yankovsky
Anatoli Diatlov
Mikhail Gorbachev
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