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TSCHERNOBYL 86 - DER SUPER-GAU | DOCUMENTARY | BY volker heise 

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.​

Director VOLKER HEISE | Editor JANINE DAUTERICH | Editorial HANNAH KELLER | Post Production Supervisor THEO BASS | Musical Score JOHAHNES REPKA, THEO BASS | Archive Producer JANNE GÄRTNER, ORIANA RAMHORST OBLEA, JULIA MILZ | Line Producer SILKE STILLIG | Producer YAN SCHOENEFELD | Executive Producer STEFAN KAUERTZ, YAN SCHOENEFELD, FLORIAN SCHEWE

Online @ ARD MEDIATHEK

Broadcast @ ARD
Press: SZ, rbb interview Volker Heise, STERN, FAZ, FILMDIENST, DER STANDARD
SZ: Forty years ago, Chernobyl became the epitome of a worst-case scenario. Filmmaker Volker Heise tells the story using only original archive footage. The result is something you rarely get to see on television.
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