Chernobyl (HBO 2019, Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson)

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.

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Jared Harris as Valery Legasov
Stellan Skarsgård as Boris Shcherbina
Emily Watson as Ulana Khomyuk
Paul Ritter as Anatoly Dyatlov
Jessie Buckley as Lyudmilla Ignatenko
Adam Nagaitis as Vasily Ignatenko
Sam Troughton as Alexandr Akimov
Robert Emms as Leonid Toptunov
Con O’Neill as Viktor Bryukhanov
Adrian Rawlins as Nikolai Fomin
Alan Williams as KGB Chairman Charkov
David Dencik as Mikhail Gorbachev
Mark Lewis Jones as General Pikalov
Ralph Ineson as General Tarakanov
Barry Keoghan as Pavel
Alex Ferns as Glukhov
Fares Fares as Bacho
Michael McElhatton as Prosecutor Andrei Stepashin

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Creator: Craig Mazin

USA | HBO | 5×70 minutes | 2019

EPISODE GUIDE
1. 1:23:45
2. PLEASE REMAIN CALM
3. OPEN WIDE, O EARTH
4. THE HAPPINESS OF ALL MANKIND
5. VECHNAYA PAMYAT

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