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202688 minPGdocumentary

TSCHERNOBYL 86

202688 minPGdocumentary

In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster impacted East and West Germany and Ukraine, as revealed through previously unseen archive footage.

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In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster impacted East and West Germany and Ukraine, as revealed through previously unseen archive footage.

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Volker Heisedirector

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Forty years since Chernobyl. Volker Heise’s new film recounts the 1986 nuclear disaster for the first time from the perspectives of both East and West Germany and Ukraine, using archive footage only. TSCHERNOBYL 86 is a gripping political thriller featuring previously unseen archive material which brings the events of that time into an unsettlingly present-day context.

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