Directed by:
Mikhail BelikovComposer:
Igor StetsyukCast:
Sergei Shakurov, Aleksey Serebryakov, Aleksey Gorbunov, Aleksei Konsovsky, Neonila Gnepovskaya, Marina Mogilevskaya, Нина Антонова, Valeriy Sheptekita (more)Plots(1)
The film begins innocently enough, with late-Soviet charm and friends in the mood for a celebration. Suddenly, the air is full of screaming sirens. The day is April 26, 1986, the scene is Chernobyl, and the reactor has just exploded. While some residents abandon the city and the horrifying syllables “radiation” pass from mouth to mouth, the authorities resort to threats, lies and cover-up. Images from Kiev, preparing for a bicycle race, stand alongside pictures signalling the demise of a city and the collapse of a country. Only gradually do the people begin to grasp what has happened. Among other sources, the celebrated HBO series Chernobyl drew inspiration from this astonishingly critical Perestroika film. (goEast - Festival des mittel- und osteuropäischen Films)
(more)Cast
Sergei Shakurov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Siberiade (1979)
Pavlova: A Woman for All Time (1983)
A hundred days after childhood (1974)
Aleksey Serebryakov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Nobody (2021)
9th Company (2005)
Leviathan (2014)
Aleksey Gorbunov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
War and Peace (1965)
Mamy (2012)
12 (2007)
Aleksei Konsovsky
Russian Empire
Best movies:
The Snow Queen (1957)
Obyknovennoye chudo (1978) (TV movie)
Collapse (1990)
Neonila Gnepovskaya
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Obratnoy dorogi net (1970)
Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (1964)
Collapse (1990)
Marina Mogilevskaya
Soviet Union
Нина Антонова
Soviet Union
Best movies:
The Final Journey (2017)
Morphine (2008)
Collapse (1990)
Valeriy Sheptekita
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Boris Godunov (1986)
Collapse (1990)
Me You He She (2018)
Aleksandr Chernyavskiy
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Collapse (1990)
Margarita Krinitsyna
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Shine, Shine, My Star (1969)
Wedding in Malinovka (1967)
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Игорь Стариков
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Collapse (1990)
Nikolay Shutko
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Duma o Kovpake: Karpaty, Karpaty... (1976)
They Fought for Their Country (1975)
Collapse (1990)
Nataliya Panchik
Best movies:
Collapse (1990)
Olga Kuznetsova
Best movies:
Collapse (1990)
My smerti smotreli v litso (1980)
Aleksey Kolesnik
Soviet Union
Best movies:
The Cold Summer of 1953 (1988)
Collapse (1990)
Ivanhoe (1983)
Vladimir Goncharov
Best movies:
Collapse (1990)
Vladimir Alexejenko
Ukraine
Best movies:
Obratnoy dorogi net (1970)
Duma o Kovpake: Karpaty, Karpaty... (1976)
Collapse (1990)