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Chernobyl - Episodes & Seasons Summaries | Recap-TV
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Chernobyl

2019

8.9/10

Drama, History

Chernobyl dramatizes the true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history and tells of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster. The miniseries focuses on the heartbreaking scope of the nuclear plant disaster that occurred in Ukraine in April 1986, revealing how and why it happened and telling the shocking, remarkable stories of the heroes who fought and fell.

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Season 1
5 Episodes

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Cast

Jared Harris

Jared Harris

as Valery Legasov

Stellan Skarsgård

Stellan Skarsgård

as Boris Shcherbina

Jessie Buckley

Jessie Buckley

as Lyudmilla Ignatenko

Emily Watson

Emily Watson

as Ulana Khomyuk

Paul Ritter

Paul Ritter

as Anatoly Dyatlov

Sam Troughton

Sam Troughton

as Alexandr Akimov

Adam Nagaitis

Adam Nagaitis

as Vasily Ignatenko

Robert Emms

Robert Emms

as Leonid Toptunov

Adrian Rawlins

Adrian Rawlins

as Nikolai Fomin

Con O'Neill

Con O'Neill

as Viktor Bryukhanov

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