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TSCHERNOBYL 86 (2026)
Directed by Volker Heise
Documentary, History, TV Movie · 1h 28m
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.
Crew
- Director
- Volker Heise
- Screenplay
- Volker Heise
- Original Music Composer
- Theo Bass, Johannes Repka
- Editor
- Janine Dauterich
- Producer
- Yan Schoenefeld
Details
- Original title
- Tschernobyl 86 - Der Super-GAU
- Release date
- 2026-04-13
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Genres
- Documentary, History, TV Movie
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German, Russian, Ukrainian
- Countries
- Germany
- Production
- Film Five