🎬 Из чего сделан сериал "Чернобыль". Рассказывает создатель,
Craig Mazin @clmazin :
"1) So I promised two things when the series ended. The first - sharing the screenplays. I've gotten permission from @HBO to do that, and @johnaugust has generously offered to host them, so I'll let you know when they're up. Second - a bibliography of sorts. Here goes.
2) These are sources I found fascinating and useful. Not ALL of them, but a bunch. First up, obviously... Svetlana Alexievich's Voices From Chernobyl. Absolutely essential, and heartbreaking, reading. There's a reason Ms. Alexievich has a Nobel Prize.
3) Next, Chernobyl 1:23:40 by Andrew Leatherbarrow. Andrew's book is a fantastic combination of travelogue and historic and scientific recounting of the Chernobyl disaster, and I found it incredibly helpful. Plus... he's a great guy! Buy this one!
4) ABLAZE is a very well-done book from a Western historical perspective. As with a number of the books I read, it's a bit outdated simply because of when it was written, but it's an excellent recounting.
5) The Truth About Chernobyl is essential reading from a Soviet physicist's perspective... and Grigori Medvedev had his boots on the ground. An excellent combination of historic recounting and clear science.
6) The Legacy of Chernobyl is also good for an additional perspective from the inside, by a different Medvedev! (Zhores)
7) Chernobyl: A Documentary Story by Iurii Scherbak has some amazing stuff from a Ukrainian and Soviet perspective, including some remarkable exchanges with Legasov himself.
8) Two others worth considering (although they are often hard to find) that rounded out my library... Chernobyl: Insight from the Inside by VM Chernousenko Chernobyl Record by RF Mould
9) Okay, now let's talk photography. My two favorites are: The Long Shadow of Chernobyl by Gerd Ludvig....
10) ...and: Zones of Exclusion: Pripyat and Chernobyl by Robert Polidori
11) Now let's transition to some science. The primary document every hardcore Chernobyl researcher needs to read is INSAG-7... the seventh version of the report of the International Nuclear Safety Advisory Group of the IAEA.https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Radiation_Dose_Chart_by_Xkcd.png/1024px-Radiation_Dose_Chart_by_Xkcd.png
12) For general reference on relative doses of radiation, interestingly enough it's XKCD that put together the most useful graphic, IMO. https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub913e_web.pdf
13) Okay, I have take a little break... but I will return later with a FILMOGRAPHY for you... movies and documentaries that I found inspiring and essential.
1) Okay... back with a short filmography for those who want to take their Chernobyl studies to the next level.
11:48 PM - 3 Jun 2019
2) Sorry, I should say #ChernobylHBO because hashtags. So first... COME AND SEE is a Soviet classic, and in my opinion, the greatest war movie ever made. It somehow manages to be restrained and unblinking all at the same time. Hard to watch. Important to watch.
3) Next, Chernobyl 3828, a documentary about the biorobots... and the long, slow battle to clean up the roof of Chernobyl. It was practically a bible for me, and almost all of Tarakanov's instructional speech to the men in Episode 4 is taken verbatim from his actual words.
4) Chernobyl - The Severe Days... documentary by Vladimir Shevchenko. Like 3828, it concentrates on the liquidation... and there's some remarkable footage of the miners. This is where we first saw the hand-lettered sign urging the miners to work 24/7....
5) The Voice of Lyumdilla is a Swedish documentary about Lyudmilla Ignatenko, directed beautifully by Gunnar Bergdahl. It's entirely about Lyudmilla (and her son!), you hear her story directly from her, and she even returns to the Pripyat flat she shared with Vasily.
6) Surviving Disaster was a BBC movie starring Ade Edmondson as Legasov. It's a somewhat different vibe than ours, but I think it's terrific. Side note: Ade was Vyv in The Young Ones! Chernobyl seems to turn comedy people into drama people...
7) Zero Hour was a dramatization/doc made by the Discovery Channel. It's mostly notable for their use of a Russian-speaking cast paired with subtitles. The actor playing Dyatlov is pretty awesome. I'm kind of obsessed with him.
8) Seconds From Disaster is another dramatization/doc... this one from National Geographic. It's quite a bit longer than Zero Hour, but like that one, it's definitely pitched more for a general audience.
9) I hope you find all these books and documentaries as interesting as I did, but of course, there's a whole lot more out there, including @HigginbothamA's new book. Happy learning!
Ack! Forgot this one. Excellent documentary! A must-see! https://youtu.be/s3XF56BaxF4"
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