Jumping on ratings even "Game of Thrones" "Chernobyl" from HBO – Not the first and probably not the last project about the Chernobyl accident, but definitely the most successful. For more than thirty years that passed after April 26, 1986, the tragedy left a noticeable mark in mass culture. Chernobyl lit up in the animated series about Spider-Man, and thirdly "Transformers", and in “Universal soldier ". Even the “strong nut” Willis had to call in Pripyat.

And if in most films the Chernobyl alienation zone is a mysterious either Russian, or the Ukrainian place, where something seems to have exploded many years ago and crawled out mutants, then of high-quality projects that more thoughtfully comprehended the technogenic catastrophe, much less. Today we recall both of them.

"Decay" (1990, USSR, USA)

At the time of filming the film after the tragedy, not even five years passed, so the memories were still fresh

The center of history is journalist Alexander Zhuravlev, who is returning from a foreign business trip to his native Kyiv on the eve of the explosion at the Chernobyl native. The very next day, his life will change forever, and a friend will be in the bee of a burning reactor. But the editor does not want to hear about the explosion and the government commission: on the nose of the world cycling race.

The film looks far from one breath, and not only because of the interspersed of the Ukrainian language. The action takes place very slowly, but when it accelerates, it no longer reduces momentum. Fire, doctors and columns of equipment give rise to full chaos in the city of energy, where twenty weddings are outlined, which no one is going to cancel. The strongest episode is the silent scene of flight over the empty, as if sleeping Pripyati (real personnel) under the "Adagio" Albinoni. Almost the same fascinates the evacuation of the orchestra on the bridge – a place with the highest dose of radiation.

"Year of the Dog" (1994, Russia, France)

No one needs people in the middle of no one who needs things – such a dreary romance

Screenwriter Vadim Mikhailov found his texture in a newspaper note. The story, however, is not to say that the movie is cinema: having not sat for six months out of twelve, one ZEK fled from the colony towards the Chernobyl zone, where he lived a couple of months and died of irradiation. In the film, the tie was made more poetic. The charming former criminal Sergei stands up for the eccentric faith from the hostel, and together they run from justice to the village evacuated due to radiation. Real lost paradise. From the inhabitants: a horse, a bumblebee and a dog, near which a dosimeter goes off scale. But no one claims to be left supplies of food and vodka. No one except looters in respirators who do not need witnesses. The love story of two extra people against the backdrop of devastation and desolation in 1994 was oh as relevant – and received a prize for the best male role at Kinotavr.

"Ranger from the atomic zone" (1999, Russia, Belarus)

“Ranger …” is a story about how “simple Russian man” put things in order in the alienation zone

Alexey Barsuk – a harsh captain of the second rank on a nuclear submarine. After reduction in the service, he returns to his father in Belarus, where he sets up to work as a guard in the radioactive zone. Its task is to guard the burial ground with radioactive waste and prevent them from leaving the alienation zone. Here is its magical state in the state: peasants (fishermen), warriors (racketeers), merchants (former speculators) and even a priestess of love from Kyiv. The powers have to be expanded for the gang of looters transporting the radioactive forest: it does not go to agree with them by the law. Despite the ominous genre “Russian militant of the 90s”, Chernukhi should not wait (with the exception of nude), but your romance in the Ranger … is available.

"I remember" (2005, Belarus)

The film does not have a trailer, but it lies entirely with YouTube

Perhaps the most life -affirming film in the selection. The picture of those who decades after the tragedy chose the path of creation. The Anatoly Buslov family lived in a small village in the Gomel region, where the radioactive ash flew. Having received a high dose of irradiation, his brother died, and the hero himself, who became an artist in Minsk, is still tormented by memories. Upon returning to his father’s house, he is surprised to find out that the villagers do not think to lose heart. While foreigners are going on an excursion to the zone, the locals do not believe that such beauty can melt death, and build a chapel. Maybe the work in a holy place healed and Buslov?

"Cloud" (2006, Germany)

After the accident, panic reigns in the city: there is no organized evacuation, everyone is saved as they can

Adaptation of the youth novel based on the Chernobyl accident (yes, it happens), which came out a year after the disaster. Hannah’s life is not easy, like any teenager: a restless younger brother Ul, an eternally busy mother, wounds on conferences, and this handsome man who does not know how to approach … Everything is like a typical comedy for teenagers until the siren notifies About the accident at the nuclear power plant. Remembering Chernobyl, residents understand: if the wind intensifies, they will be covered by a poisonous cloud.

Well, then everything is in the best traditions of the catastrophe films: traffic jams, crowded trains and a difficult choice between friends and family, who are trying to survive in a distraught crowd.

Aurora (2006, Ukraine)

This Ukrainian drama is invariably included in all thematic collections, and not in vain. The beginning of the picture is spectacular: a dazzling yellow field of sunflowers, faceless figures in protection and crackling dosimeters. Aurora Nedelin – a pupil of the orphanage in Pripyat, celebrating his birthday a day before the Chernobyl accident. A curious girl on a fatal night is almost at the reactor itself and receives a dangerous dose of radiation. The USSR government refuses to pay for the necessary operation in the American hospital, but if it is impossible to help it, this does not mean that it cannot help. In the same hospital with Aurora lies the star of the World Ballet Nikolai Astakhov, who has lost faith in himself. Seeing how much he wants not only to live, but also to dance the doomed girl, the hero of Dmitry Haratyan leaves depression – and the viewer, on the contrary, is immersed in her. A lot of tears and a little Chernobyl.

"Door" (2008, Ireland)

Short film based on the book “Chernobyl prayer. Chronicle of the future " Nobel laureate Svetlana Aleksievich. The message of the film is simple: "On that day we have not just lost the city, we have lost our lives". Gathering a share on the road for three days, the family of the protagonist did not know what was leaving the house forever. All taken things out of a slow action – just like the people themselves. The little daughter does not yet understand that she is deadly sick. But her father already knows that, like a thief, he should return to a dead city and steal the door from his own apartment – a symbol of life and death. By tradition, it is on her that they put the deceased.

In 2010 "Door" was nominated on "Oscar" Like the best short film. Seventeen minutes of the tape is enough to turn you inside out.

"On Saturday" (2011, Russia, Germany, Ukraine)

The drama that took the award "Golden Eagle" For the best script, shows the first day after the accident at the nuclear power plant through the eyes of the Komsomol worker Valery Kabesh. He learns that as a result of the explosion, the city faces radioactive infection. Much in the film rhymes with the HBO series: on the ground, graphite, the bastard-bastard does not believe dosimeters, “the Soviet reactor cannot explode,” everyone is afraid of Moscow reactions. The group of initiates does not say anything to the local residents, and only on the main character depends on how many people will be able to escape. But either Valera is a really small person, or not such a truth -to -end -to -house as a plumber from "Fool" Bykov. All he can be a fist reactor. As one of the conspirators said: “Saturday, a day off – life cancel?". He is echoed by citizens who believe that "even a thousand X -ray will not put a Russian member". Valerina Girl ignores the pleas of the Komsomol member just to take and leave: she is worried about new shoes and performances in a restaurant. The rest also look at the hero as a fool, although some even realize what is really happening. But what is already grooming? In general, a feast during the plague. And sometimes literally: closer to the finale, the already desperate Valera wanders for a wedding to a friend and, spitting on everything, goes out to play with his former group. Die, so with music.

This all somewhat does not converge with the usual story that guilt for huge loss lies exclusively on cowardly and sluggish bureaucrats. The film shows how many people like to swim with the flow … And how someone will die rather than to leave the comfort zone.

"Forbidden zone" (2012, USA)

American horror film is an example of a spectacular dance on the bones of the Chernobyl tragedy. Why come up with the second corporation of Ambrell when there is a real case? The victims of the Chernobyl accident turned into zombies, which are controlled by certain scientists. Just into these places were looked by the avid travelers, whom the former military Yuri volunteered. What could go wrong? Everything – and from the very beginning. Therefore, the conductor and most of the group die either in the dead grip of humanoid creatures, or from radiation.

There are schemers, there is no morality.

"Moths" (2013, Ukraine)

This Ukrainian series for drama, Casta (Maria Poddyeva, for example) and the love line holds the HBO blow. High school student Alya Shirokova is about to pass the final exams, but for now she copies on fashionable jeans and listens to the group "Kino". But the usual trip to the aunt in Pripyat turns around Duelz Casino the nightmare. The city is disconnected by long -distance communication, military equipment gathers, patients with irradiation are brought to the hospital. Private Derzhavin is at the disposal of the major – father Ali, and then in her own. Technogenic disaster is not the best place and time for romance, but definitely a good chance to test feelings. A separate plus the series receives the same scene on the roof of the reactor, when the liquidators dropped the graphite – more dramatic than that of HBO – and the ending, where today the city becomes a tourist Mecca.

“Chernobyl. Alienation zone ”(2014, Russia)

This is recently a media giant TNT shoots loud mystical projects like "Gogol" And "Dead Lake" , Removes steam, Feduk and Khodchenkov. And in 2014, the most rating series of the channel was Road-Mui about five, not very pleasant teenagers who went to a ghost city. The motivation is simple: to cut the dough, or rather, to return the loot, which was whistled by an unknown guy during the party at the owner of Pasha's apartment. The thief goes straight to Chernobyl, from where the video blog leads and simultaneously spends Pashins of eight million rubles. In the zone, from which, according to the slogan, “no one will return the same,” their attractions: hunting for people who change the appearance of the phantoms, the secret bunker of scientists and the nails of the program – a leap into the past with all the attached temporary paradoxes.

If you are able to withstand not the best game of young actors and in some places clumsy special effects, then with "Alien zone" It is definitely worth getting to familiarize yourself. Nothing better in the science fiction genre in Russia in recent years has not come out.

Of course, these are not all films and series in which the Chernobyl disaster and its consequences are somehow lit. Still, the explosion on the Chernobyl nuclear power plant became one of the main events of the late XX century, and many filmmakers tend to comprehend it, each in their own way. For some, this is a big human tragedy, but for someone just a terrible bike that gives excellent entourage for entertainment projects.

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