Чорнобиль хроніка важких тижнів. 1986р. УкрКіноХроніка.

A film about the Chernobyl accident and the liquidation of its consequences. Evacuation of the population, decontamination of the territory adjacent to the station, construction of the “sarcophagus”, the Chernobyl-Zeleny Mys highway. Academicians of the USSR Academy of Sciences V. O. Legasov, E. P. Velikhov, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR I. S. Silaev, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee M. S. Gorbachev are shown. Many films were created years after the explosion of the fourth unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. But only a few people witnessed the tragedy itself. Only two film crews broke through bureaucratic obstacles, one of them was the team of the director of “Ukrkinokhronika” Volodymyr Shevchenko. On May 14, 1986, they left to film at the station and spent the next hundred days alongside firefighters, power engineers, military personnel, dosimetrists and nuclear engineers who were liquidating the consequences of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. They all understood the danger they were exposed to. Some were following orders, some had no choice, but among the filmmakers there were only those who came here of their own free will. Moreover, Shevchenko led a real siege of numerous, but necessary instances in order to get to the epicenter of the disaster. Already in the hospital ward, having received a large dose of radiation, the director wrote in his diary: "If someone tells me that if I had not climbed, I would have had a lung, I will immediately answer: better without a lung than, like some, without honor." Filming was carried out continuously in the most dangerous zones, where graphite fragments were still smoking underfoot. In total, twenty thousand meters of film were used. [source?] The footage taken from a helicopter over the destroyed reactor was illuminated by radiation and the film was rejected. But the director inserted the illuminated footage into the film and on the screen they appear with traces of radiation shocks. Everything related to Chernobyl was carefully filtered by the authorities: all printed, audio, photo and video materials had to pass a specially created Interdepartmental Group of Experts, which included representatives of thirty-three ministries and departments. After that, the Central Committee, Politburo, Golovlit and State Film Agency had to give their permission. Of course, state structures counted on the fact that Soviet creators would glorify the heroic work of the liquidators and their leadership, which directed them on the path of feat. The director defended the right to an honest opinion, because in relation to the people who worked and died there, at the Chernobyl NPP, any other position would be a crime. As a result of a long struggle, the film was finally released on the screen, cut, but not fake. And the last one. The creator of the film precedent, later purchased by 132 countries of the world, which received prizes at nine international film festivals and entered the history of Ukrainian and world film journalism of the 20th century, died of radiation sickness literally a month after the premiere. The Ukrainian Studio of Chronicle and Documentary Films (Kyiv Studio of Chronicle and Documentary Films, "Ukrkinokhronika") is a studio of chronicle and documentary films, established in 1931 in Kharkiv on the basis of the Society of Friends of Soviet Cinema, and since 1939 has been located in Kyiv. It produced documentaries and newsreels: "Soviet Ukraine", "Youth of Ukraine", "Pioneer", "Sporting Ukraine", "Ukraine Today". During World War II, front-line film groups were created, which included the studio's cameramen Borys Vakar, Valentyn Orlyankin, Oleksandr Kovalchuk, Mykhailo Poichenko, Israel Goldstein and others. Among the documentary filmmakers who worked at the studio: screenwriters Vladlen Kuznetsov, Igor Malyshevsky, Valentina Markova, Petro Yarovenko, Olena Moskalenko, Olena Zavgorodnia, Vadym Pepa; directors Volodymyr Artemenko, Oleksandr Kosinov, Anatoly Slisarenko, Viktor Shkuryn, Anatoly Fedorov, Igor Grabovsky, Volodymyr Shevchenko, Arnoldo Fernandez, Viktor Makoveyev, Oleksandr Koval, Yuriy Tereshchenko, Mykola Laktionov-Stezenko, Suzanne Shapovalova, Volodymyr Fesenko, Pavlo Faryniuk, Maya Liniychuk, Mykhailo Sachenko, Valentyn Pivovarov, Khadzhi-Murad Mamedov, Shcherbakov Eduard Mykolayovych, Oleksandr Yakymchuk; cameramen Igor Pysanko, Oleksandr Lisovyi, Viktor Shuvalov, Volodymyr Vasyliev, Oleksandr Verteletskyi, Viktor Yefimenko, Anatoly Khymych, Ivan Kersek, Fedor Klymenko, Mykola Lukanyov, Yakiv Leyzerovych, Anatoly Solopay, Valery Moroz, Volodymyr Taranchenko, Yevhen Patlashenko, Oleksandr Radynskyi, Mykola Gresko, Vitaliy Grishkov, Bohdan Pidgirnyi, Yakiv Myestechkin, Yakiv Marchenko, Volodymyr Zykeev, Viktor Khotinov, Yakiv Marchenko, Solomon Holbrikh. The directors of the studio were Grigory Radchenko, Viktor Derkach, Mykola Kozin, Ivan Lymar, Oleksandr Koval, Andriy Kr...