Disaster at Chernobyl

Jan 1, 2004

0h 48m

★ 7.5

A catastrophe ten times worse than Hiroshima

Overview

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.

Genres

Documentary

History

TV Movie

Production Companies

Cineflix Productions

3BM Television

Next Film Productions

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Cast

Self - Narrator (voice)

David Morrissey

Anatoli Diatlov

Igor Slavinskiy

Alexander Akimov

Aleksander Khoroshko

Leonid Toptunov

Volodya Stepanenko

Boris Stolyarchuk

Aleksander Klimbutski

Valeri Perevozchenko

Volodymyr Holosniak

Alexander 'Sasha' Yuvchenko

Vladimir Mamchur

Natasha Yuvchenko

Irina Pavliuk

Kirill Yuvchenko

Nikita Chavinin

Valeri Khodemechuk

Vladimir Melnyk

Yuri Tregub

Vladimir Velianik

Sasha Agulov

Denys Hranchak

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