1. 1:23:45 (2019)
April 26, 1986, Ukrainian SSR. Plant workers and firefighters put their lives on the line to control a catastrophic 1986 explosion at a Soviet nuclear power plant.
Release date: 2019-05-06
User rating:
8.82 / 10
231 votes
Season number: 1
Episode number: 1
Runtime: 61 minutes
Director: Johan Renck
Writer: Craig Mazin
Guest stars
Laura Elphinstone
as Oksana
Sam Strike
as Misha
Sammy Hayman
as Titenok
Matas Dirginčius
as Vladimir Tishchura
Caolan Byrne
as Day Shift Worker
Alex Blake
as Petrovich
Ron Cook
as Old Maternity Doctor
Donald Sumpter
as Zharkov
Gerard Kearns
as Pravik
Povilas Jatkevičius
as Kibenok
Michael Socha
as Mikhail
Jamie Sives
as Sitnikov
Douggie McMeekin
as Yuvchenko
Michael Shaeffer
as Blond Man
Karl Davies
as Viktor Proskuryakov
Adam Lundgren
as Brazhnik
Billy Postlethwaite
as Boris Stolyarchuk
Jay Simpson
as Perevozchenko
Paulius Markevičius
as Aleksandr Kudryavstev
Joshua Leese
as Kirschenbaum
Karolis Kasperavičius
as Viktor Degtaryenko
Cast
Jared Harris
as Valery Legasov
Stellan Skarsgård
as Boris Shcherbina
Emily Watson
as Ulana Khomyuk
Paul Ritter
as Anatoly Dyatlov
Jessie Buckley
as Lyudmilla Ignatenko
Adam Nagaitis
as Vasily Ignatenko
Sam Troughton
as Alexandr Akimov
Robert Emms
as Leonid Toptunov
Con O'Neill
as Viktor Bryukhanov
Adrian Rawlins
as Nikolai Fomin
Alan Williams
as KGB Chairman Charkov
David Dencik
as Mikhail Gorbachev
Mark Lewis Jones
as General Pikalov
Ralph Ineson
as General Tarakanov
Barry Keoghan
as Pavel
Alex Ferns
as Glukhov
Fares Fares
as Bacho
Michael McElhatton
as Prosecutor Andrei Stepashin
Rest of guest stars - click here to expand
Nadia Clifford - Dr. Svetlana Zinchenko, Stephen Bisland - Night Shift Worker, Ross Armstrong - Nikolai Gorbachenko, Jan Ričica - Oksana's Kid