Chernobyl
Open Wide, O Earth
Season 1, Episode 3 · Aired 2019-05-20
Synopsis
Lyudmilla Ignatenko, a Pripyat resident, ignores warning about her firefighter husband's contamination; Valery Legasov lays out a decontamination plan, complete with human risks.
In the series
This episode is part of Chernobyl (2019) on HBO/Sky.
Five episodes of institutional failure and radioactive truth — limited series as moral document.
Key cast
- Jared Harris as Valery Legasov
- Stellan Skarsgård as Boris Shcherbina
- Emily Watson as Ulana Khomyuk
- Paul Ritter as Anatoly Dyatlov
- Jessie Buckley as Lyudmilla Ignatenko