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Official trailerCast
- Jared Harris
- Stellan Skarsgård
- Emily Watson
- Paul Ritter
- Jessie Buckley
- Adam Nagaitis
Chernobyl
Chernobyl is a 2019 historical drama miniseries about the 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian SSR and the cleanup efforts that followed. It was created and written by Craig Mazin, directed by Johan Renck, and produced by HBO in the United States and Sky UK in the United Kingdom. The ensemble cast is led by Jared Harris as Valery Legasov, Stellan Skarsgård as Boris Shcherbina, Emily Watson as Ulana Khomyuk, a fictional nuclear physicist who stands for the many scientists who investigated the accident, and Paul Ritter as Anatoly Dyatlov. Adam Nagaitis plays Pripyat firefighter Vasily Ignatenko, and Jessie Buckley his wife Lyudmilla. The five-part series premiered on 6 May 2019 in the United States and on 7 May in the United Kingdom. Critics praised its performances, historical accuracy, atmosphere, screenplay and score. At the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards it received nineteen nominations and won Outstanding Limited Series, Directing and Writing. It also won the Golden Globe for Best Miniseries and the 2020 BAFTA TV Award for best miniseries, with Harris named Best Actor. Each episode was accompanied by a podcast in which Mazin and NPR host Peter Sagal discussed where and why the show took artistic license.
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