Chernobyl
Craig Mazin · HBO · 2019
seriesdrama
Hildur Guðnadóttir built the score from field recordings made inside the decommissioned Ignalina nuclear plant in Lithuania, the same RBMK reactor design as Chernobyl. Pumps, valves, ventilation. No traditional instrumentation. Craig Mazin wrote five episodes covering April 1986 to the 1987 trial. Jared Harris plays Valery Legasov. Stellan Skarsgård plays Boris Shcherbina. Sourced primarily from Svetlana Alexievich's Voices from Chernobyl and declassified Soviet records.