Chernobyl 1986 2021
The year is 1986, and 30-year old Pripyat firefighter Alexey Karpushin has begun to reconnect with a former lover, local hairdresser Olga Savostina. Olga reveals to him that he is the father of her 10-year old son. However, their romance falters when Alexey fails to turn up for a picnic with Olga and their son, and Olga tells him never to visit again. Alexey applies to be reassigned to Kyiv for a fresh start and is just about to leave when the disaster at the nearby Chernobyl power plant occurs, and instead, he boards a fire truck heading to the site of the explosion at reactor number 4.
Alexey survives the radiation exposure in the initial fight to control the fire. As the scale of the disaster becomes apparent, the potential for an even greater catastrophic secondary steam explosion of a large water reservoir that lies beneath the reactor that would eject enormous quantities of radioactive core material into the upper atmosphere, is identified. Alexey has prior experience of conducting fire inspections on the corridors that lie underneath nuclear reactors however he is reluctant to sign up for what will likely be a suicide mission to manually drain the water reservoir before the reactor collapses into it. However, Alexey then learns that his son is now suffering from radiation exposure. He agrees to join the team on the basis that his son will be sent to Switzerland for radiation treatment.
The aftermath of a shocking explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station made hundreds of people sacrifice their lives to clean up the site of the catastrophe and to successfully prevent an even bigger disaster that could have turned a large part of the European continent into an uninhabitable exclusion zone. This is their story.
Released: 2021-04-15
Runtime: 136 minutes
Genre: Drama, History, Adventure
Stars: Danila Kozlovsky, Oksana Akinshina, Philip Avdeev, Ravshana Kurkova, Arthur Beschastny
Director: Varvara Avdyushko, Danila Kozlovsky, Danila Kozlovsky, Danila Kozlovsky, Alexandr Rodnyansky
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