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Released
2021 · FILM

Chernobyl: Abyss

A firefighter thrust into the chaos of the Chernobyl disaster must lead a desperate team of liquidators against time and radiation to contain a catastrophe that could have wiped out Europe.

Runtime
136 min
Language
RU
DramaHistory

Synopsis

The aftermath of a shocking explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station led to hundreds of people sacrificing their lives to clean up the site of the catastrophe and to successfully prevent an even greater disaster that could have rendered a large part of the European continent an uninhabitable exclusion zone. This is their story.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Mariya LikhachyovaShot by Ksenia SeredaScored by Oleg Karpachev

Box Office

2021 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.7× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$6.5M

Budget$9.1M
Worldwide gross$6.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Chernobyl: Abyssde
  • Tschernobyl 1986de
  • Chernobyl 1986en
  • Chernóbiles

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