Chernobyl: Abyss

Chernobyl: Abyss

The aftermath of a shocking explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station made hundreds of people sacrifice their lives to clean up the site of the catastrophe and to successfully prevent an even bigger disaster that could have turned a large part of the European continent into an uninhabitable exclusion zone. This is their story.

  • Released: 2021-04-15
  • Runtime: 136 minutes
  • Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
  • Stars: Danila Kozlovsky, Oksana Akinshina, Philip Avdeev, Ravshana Kurkova, Arthur Beschastny, Nikolay Kozak, Igor Chernevich, Anton Shvarts, Andrey Archakov, Samvel Tadevosian, Dmitry Beseda, Pavel Davydov, Dmitry Matveev, Mariya Abramova, Daniela Bogatyreva, Alexander Alyabyev, Nikolay Samsonov, Mariya Ulyanova, Anatoly Prosalov, Alina Milkova, Margarita Mezina, Ekaterina Mezina, Pavel Chernyavskiy, Nataliya Blazhievskaya, Petr Tereschenko, Andrey Kazakov, Kai Aleks Getts, Savely Albutov, Polina Raykina, Elvira Kekeyeva, Yuliya Dzhulai, Anna-Mariya Danilenko, Anastasiya Kuimova, Aleksandr Kudrenko, Olha Makieieva, Yury Oborotov, Dmitriy Podnozov, Vladimir Simonov, Vladimir Svirskiy, Anna Dubrovskaya, Vladislav Abashin, Yelena Voronchikhina, Anton Filipenko, Oleg Ryazantsev, Alexandra Cherkasova, Yury Mezhevich, Gleb Puskepalis, Anna Shatilova, Maxim Blinov, Ren Hanami, Svetlana Kotova, Tatiana Kargaeva
  • Director: Danila Kozlovsky
 Comments
  • norbert-plan-618-715813 - 10 March 2024
    Nice tension moments intricated with personnal sentimental intrigue
    This Chernobyl focuses on the firefighters who intervened to extinguish the first fire just after the reactor explosion. To elicit empathy, the script focuses on one of these firefighters, who reunites with his former lover in Chernobyl and realizes that she has a child, of which he is probably the father. This occupies a long, well-acted, sympathetic prologue. Then there are the spectacular sequences linked to the intervention at the nuclear power plant after the explosion. The script focuses on two characters: the fireman, Danila Kozlovskiy, and his fiancée, Oksana Akinshina. The actors are good and the ensemble works, even if the film is slow to get going.

    The subject matter is so strong that it's impossible not to be moved by certain sequences. The sequence involving the three firefighters in the water to open the water drain is the film's high point, spectacular and, of course, extremely tense, as they descend into the plant's basement in the dark by the light of their torches. It's well done and builds tension steadily and impressively.

    In the end, the 2 hours 16 minutes pass by themselves, even if the plot concerning the couple (our firefighter and his ex) frankly bores us. Especially since the scriptwriters, to ensure empathy, have made the son the first victim of the explosion and radiation, leading to sequences in which the couple want him to be evacuated and treated, knowing that it's not possible to treat or evacuate everyone.
  • tinkerbell74 - 1 May 2022
    Terrible
    This movie was horrible. This is a love story with the disaster in the background. This movie is so accurate. Fire fighters battling the fire would have had radiation poisoning. Gotta love how they try and turn a disaster into a Romeo and Juliet movie.