I read the book "Voices From Chernobyl" (incredible book) and watched the docuseries on HBO. The part of the book that I was most fascinated with was the story of Lyuskya and her husband, firefighter Vaskya. She was pregnant when this happened and wouldn't leave her husband's side in the hospital. In the book it details how he was...I suppose melting away would be the best summary. She took care of him until he finally passed on and she wasn't harmed at all because the fetus absorbed all the radiation. I was excited to have seen their story in the docuseries. And here they were again in this documentary, except not only was there video of them with voiceover from Lyuskya but years later she came back home and it's all recorded. From what I've read it's stilly highly radioactive inside enclosed places so it might not have been a great idea if that's true, but an amazing watch nevertheless.
Of course that isn't the only interesting part of this. Real video of the citizens evacuating Pripyat, workers doing their suicide mission of keeping the world from being destroyed and the abnormalities of the offspring of people and animals are to name a few.
The docuseries went into more detail of the trial but this goes through that with little detail to give room for more detailed (but not long enough to be boring) information beyond that which I found interesting.
There are comments about skipping this if you've seen the docuseries but if you have seen that and find it interesting I strongly suggest watching this as well. You'll just have to deal with reading subtitles if you aren't fluent in Russian.
The only thing I was disappointed about was the lack of mention about them turning the carnival rides on and letting people outside to enjoy distraction while getting ready to send them off instead of making them stay inside. The Ferris wheel is an icon and it rusting away was shown quickly in the long abandoned footage of Pripyat but I find it hard to believe that with so many things recorded there was nothing on people enjoying the rides.
Of course that isn't the only interesting part of this. Real video of the citizens evacuating Pripyat, workers doing their suicide mission of keeping the world from being destroyed and the abnormalities of the offspring of people and animals are to name a few.
The docuseries went into more detail of the trial but this goes through that with little detail to give room for more detailed (but not long enough to be boring) information beyond that which I found interesting.
There are comments about skipping this if you've seen the docuseries but if you have seen that and find it interesting I strongly suggest watching this as well. You'll just have to deal with reading subtitles if you aren't fluent in Russian.
The only thing I was disappointed about was the lack of mention about them turning the carnival rides on and letting people outside to enjoy distraction while getting ready to send them off instead of making them stay inside. The Ferris wheel is an icon and it rusting away was shown quickly in the long abandoned footage of Pripyat but I find it hard to believe that with so many things recorded there was nothing on people enjoying the rides.