CHERNOBYL – UTOPIA IN FLAMES

• Genre: sci-fi, drama, history

• Running time: documentary series  4 ×45‘

• Written & Directed: Ariane Riecker, Dirk Schneider

• English

The Chernobyl disaster on 26 April 1986 is considered the worst nuclear accident in mankind’s history – both in terms of casualties and costs. It has impacted the world forever. Many have seen the fictional account. But the true story is even more complex, more human and more shocking than we could ever have imagined.

It starts in 1970 in an area of forest and marshland in Northern Ukraine, very close to a little village that the Ukrainian locals call Chornobyl, in Russian: Chernobyl. There a utopia was made real: the largest nuclear power plant in the world alongside a model town of Soviet communism, Prypjat – they were the embodiment of the achievements of the New Human.