

With untold millions at risk after the Chernobyl explosion, nuclear physicist Ulana Khomyuk makes a desperate attempt to reach Valery Legasov, a leading Soviet nuclear physicist, and warn him about the threat of second explosion that could devastate the continent.
Ratings
3.5
Cast

Jared Harris
Valery Legasov

Stellan Skarsgård
Boris Shcherbina

Emily Watson
Ulana Khomyuk

Paul Ritter
Anatoly Dyatlov

Jessie Buckley
Lyudmilla Ignatenko

Adam Nagaitis
Vasily Ignatenko

Sam Troughton
Alexandr Akimov

Robert Emms
Leonid Toptunov

Con O'Neill
Viktor Bryukhanov

Adrian Rawlins
Nikolai Fomin

Alan Williams
KGB Chairman Charkov

David Dencik
Mikhail Gorbachev

Mark Lewis Jones
General Pikalov

Ralph Ineson
General Tarakanov

Barry Keoghan
Pavel

Alex Ferns
Glukhov

Fares Fares
Bacho

Michael McElhatton
Prosecutor Andrei Stepashin

Laura Elphinstone
Oksana
Nadia Clifford
Dr. Svetlana Zinchenko

Matthew Needham
Dmitri
Rosie Sheehy
Nurse Pripyat

Tomas Žaibus
Soldier (Hospital)

Ron Cook
Old Maternity Doctor

Peter Guinness
Major Burov

Laurence Spellman
Commission Heli Pilot

Alison Pargeter
BCP HQ Aide Female

Victor McGuire
Garanin

Sakalas Uždavinys
Ilya Ivanovich Chulkov
Aidas Jurgaitis
Soldier (Shelter)

Aiste S. Gram
Bartender in Polyissa Hotel
Daniel Crossley
Stasiuk

Lucy Russell
Marina Gruzinskaya

Donald Sumpter
Zharkov

Diarmaid Murtagh
Zukauskas

Natasha Radski
Russian News Reader
Yitzchak Averbuch
General
Joe Tucker
Plant Employee

Philip Barantini
Bezpalov

Oscar Dyekjær Giese
Baranov

Baltasar Breki Samper
Ananenko

Darius Petkevičius
Local Husband

Amanda Drew
Kremlin Aide Female

Michael Socha
Mikhail
Cait Davis
Local Wife at Bar

Karl Davies
Viktor Proskuryakov
Jan Ričica
Oksana's Kid
Crew
Visual Effects Supervisor
Stunt Coordinator
Roto Supervisor
VFX Production Coordinator
Editor
Writer
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Director