From Vitalii Dokalenko and Andrejs Ekis and being sold by Canoe Film, the feature will explore how the staff at the infamous power plant averted another nuclear disaster at the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The project — a co-production between Cinevilla and Ukraine’s UM Group — came about last year when Ekis and Dokalenko found a newspaper article about a supervisor at the plant who had begun his 15-hour night shift on Feb. 23 only to find at dawn that the Russian Army had invaded Ukraine and columns of Russian armoured vehicles were now approaching the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
The documentary — which was conceived as a four-part series but is being delivered as a feature length film — includes interviews with several employers who were in the plant and three tourists who also became trapped, alongside surveillance camera footage from within the facility itself. Taking place almost a full year following the Russian invasion, the 2023 Berlinale includes several Ukrainian films in its lineup, including the documentary In Ukraine from Piotr and Tomasz Walks. Meanwhile, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to attend in some capacity to support Sean Penn’s profile
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