Chernobyl Diaries

Chernobyl Diaries (2012)

Timing: 1:28 (88 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2012-05-24

Country

United States

Production

Warner Bros. Pictures, Solana Films, Alcon Entertainment, FilmNation Entertainment, Oren Peli / Brian Witten Pictures

Genre

Horror, Thriller

Budget

$1 000 000

Revenue

$38 390 020

Website

http://www.chernobyldiaries.com/

Director

Bradley Parker

Actors

Olivia Taylor Dudley, Jesse McCartney, Devin Kelley, Jonathan Sadowski, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Nathan Phillips, Alex Feldman, Milutin Milošević, Kristof Konrad, Pasha D. Lychnikoff
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Scenario

Shane van Dyke, Oren Peli

Producer

Brian Witten, Oren Peli

Operator

Morten Søborg

Composer

Artist

Audition

Terri Taylor, Aleksandar Adžić, Nenad Pavlović

Editing

Stan Salfas
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• The initial ideas for the film's story came to Oren Peli when he came across online photographs of a girl traveling through Pripyat.
• The film was not shown to critics in advance.
• The male voice acting in the film is done by the same people who voice the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game series.
• During the film's release, rumors circulated that filming took place in the actual locations of Pripyat and Chernobyl. In reality, the film was shot in Serbia and Hungary, as indicated by the credits. This is also visible with the Ferris wheel: in Pripyat, the Ferris wheel is located in a park and there are no residential buildings around it. Furthermore, Pripyat is heavily overgrown with trees and shrubs.
• At the "Pripyat" checkpoint, where Yuri talks to the soldiers, the sleeve badges of the "Berkut" special unit are visible on their uniforms.
• While searching for Yuri, Michel, Paul, and Amanda follow a trail into an abandoned building. While they are talking in the kitchen, the trail in the dusty ground completely disappears, and then reappears in the next shot as soon as they resume their search.
• In the parking lot, where the bullet-ridden ZiU-682 trolleybus was parked (although there was no trolleybus service in Pripyat), were VAZ 21099 cars, which appeared in 1991, as well as a VAZ 2109 with a “long wing,” which could not have existed in 1986 (although they may have been left there after the 90s). The presence of Moskvich-2141 cars, which only began mass production in the second half of 1986, is also an error, while the accident itself occurred in April.
• There is one almost completed cooling tower and one barely started, which were intended for units 5 and 6 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. However, the film shows 3 or 4 fully built cooling towers, which is not true.
• When Yuri first tried to pass through the checkpoint, two soldiers in crimson berets (likely special forces) could be seen. Yuri started a conversation with the first one, while the second one circled the van. He had a folding stock of a Kalashnikov assault rifle, a paratrooper version, but such stocks were only present on AKMS and were removed from the armament of Ukrainian troops back in the 90s.
• At the “Pripyat” checkpoint, where Yuri speaks with the soldiers, patches of the “Berkut” special unit are visible on their uniforms.