Cast

Anton Shagin Svetlana Smirnova-Martsinkevich Stanislav Ryadinskiy V. Gusov Aleksey Demidov Vyacheslav Petkun

Credits

Written by: Aleksandr Mindadze

Plot

On the day of the Chernobyl disaster, a young Communist Party official in a Ukrainian town learns about it and, instead of fleeing, goes on a day of partying and a quest for a woman, in a hand-held, kinetic drama.

Sinekatalog’s take

A kinetic and disturbing disaster drama.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 5.5 / 10 (675 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.

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