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Seven hours after the Chernobyl explosion, Ulana Khomyuk, a nuclear physicist in Minsk, is awakened in her office by a radiation alarm and grows increasingly worried when her phone call to Chernobyl goes unanswered. Lyudmilla arrives at the Pripyat hospital looking for Vasily, whom she learns is being helicoptered to Moscow. At a Central Committee meeting with General Secretary Gorbachev, Legasov objects to Deputy Prime Minister Boris Shcherbina's assessment that the situation is contained, and Gorbachev ends up sending both men to Chernobyl, where a new reading shows radiation is thousands of times higher than reported. Legasov urges Shcherbina to evacuate Pripyat, but Shcherbina worries about Moscow's reaction. As reports of the disaster spread to Europe, Shcherbina finally calls for an evacuation, even as Khomyuk makes her way to Chernobyl to warn Legasov and Shcherbina that a second and far more massive explosion is imminent one that puts the entire European continent at risk.
Original Release
05/13/2019
US Release
05/13/2019
Cast
Name | Character |
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Emily Watson | Ulana Khomyuk |
Matthew Needham | Dmitri |
Nadia Clifford | Dr. Svetlana Zinchenko |
Rosie Sheehy | Nurse Pripyat |
Sam Troughton | Alexandr Akimov |
Robert Emms | Leonid Toptunov |
Karl Davies | Viktor Proskuryakov |
Ron Cook | Old Maternity Doctor |
Adam Nagaitis | Vasily Ignatenko |
Jessie Buckley | Lyudmilla Ignatenko |
Directors
Writers
Creators
Cast
Name | Character |
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Emily Watson | Ulana Khomyuk |
Matthew Needham | Dmitri |
Nadia Clifford | Dr. Svetlana Zinchenko |
Rosie Sheehy | Nurse Pripyat |
Sam Troughton | Alexandr Akimov |
Robert Emms | Leonid Toptunov |
Karl Davies | Viktor Proskuryakov |
Ron Cook | Old Maternity Doctor |
Adam Nagaitis | Vasily Ignatenko |
Jessie Buckley | Lyudmilla Ignatenko |
Tomas Zaibus | Soldier (Hospital) |
Jared Harris | Valery Legasov |
Amanda Drew | Kremlin Aide Female |
Stellan Skarsgard | Boris Shcherbina |
David Dencik | Mikhail Gorbachev |
Alan Williams | KGB Chairman Charkov |
Michael Socha | Mikhail |
Laura Elphinstone | Oksana |
Jan Ricica | Oksana's Kid |
Peter Guinness | Major Burov |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Johan Renck | Executive Producer |
Craig Mazin | Executive Producer |
Chris Fry | Executive Producer |
Anne Mensah | Executive Producer |
Gabriel Silver | Executive Producer |
Carolyn Strauss | Executive Producer |
Subramanian S. Iyer | Executive Producer |
Robert How | Producer |
Jacqueline Lesko | Producer |
Darko Skulsky | Producer |
Tanya Sokolova | Producer |
Gary Tuck | Producer |
Sanne Wohlenberg | Producer |
Jane Yatsuta | Producer |
Witarina Mitchell | Producer |