Blocked the streets and altered the buttons: how the Chernobyl series was filmed in Ukraine - ForumDaily
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Overlap the streets and alter the buttons: how the Chernobyl series was filmed in Ukraine

The project that topped the ranking of TV series of all time according to audience ratings, which is written about by the world's media and which tells about the world's largest environmental disaster, is the series “Chernobyl” by the American channel HBO and the British company Sky.

The computer model of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was created in the Kiev studio Postmodern digital. Photo: video frame YouTube / HBO

Most of the scenes were shot in Lithuania, but some of the locations and actors were Ukrainian. What streets and landscapes of Ukraine appear in the series, how did they draw a model of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Kiev’s studio and how did they shoot it? BBC News Ukraine.

From hairstyles to homes

The series “Chernobyl” received many positive reviews regarding its detailed depictions of life in the Soviet Union in the 80s.

Cars and clothes, hairstyles and interiors were supposed to be not just like in the USSR, but like in the USSR it was 1986 of the year.

“They altered the buttons and shoulder straps so that everything corresponded to that time and that composition of the military,” actor Vladimir Pantelyuk, who played in the scene of the series dedicated to the evacuation of the population from Pripyat, told BBC News Ukraine. This footage appears at the end of the third episode of the series.

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To find authentic locations, the creators of the series went to countries with Soviet history, series producer Senna Wohlenberg talks about working on Chernobyl.

About Ukraine as a place where everything happened, the creators of the series thought in the first place. But there are no tax breaks for foreign filmmakers. As in Lithuania, where 70% of the series was filmed.

Photo: shot from the official trailer for the Chernobyl mini-series, YouTube / HBO

However, the Ukrainian places in the series can be found.

The scenes in which Pantelyuk took part were filmed in Podol in Kyiv, not far from the Oktyabr cinema.

“An episode that lasted 5-7 seconds in the series took 7 hours to film. The crowd was all Ukrainian. Then we didn’t know that this series was being produced by HBO,” said Pantelyuk.

 

From the Ukrainian locations in the series also appear views of the Kiev Sea and the city of Pripyat.

In Kyiv, in addition to Podol, they filmed in Obolon - at the Institute of Hydrobiology, on the streets of Tereshchenkovskaya, on Khreshchatyk, the buildings of the Kyiv State Administration, the premises of the universities of KPI and NAU appear in the frames.

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Photo: shot from the official trailer YouTube / HBO

In Ukraine, the Chernobyl series was filmed for several weeks. Filming was provided by the Ukrainian company Radioaktive. The main stars came to the capital - Stellan Skarsgård, Jared Harris, Emily Watson and Jessie Buckley.

Blocked the streets

Some episodes in June 2018 were filmed on Bogdan Khmelnitsky Street, in the blocks from Pushkinskaya to Vladimirskaya, where they blocked the traffic and allowed the transport of those times.

During filming, departments and shops on the streets changed their signs and names. The news agency "Ukrinform" became "Music School No. 132", instead of light boxes, propaganda posters of those times and stands with the newspaper "Pravda" appeared.

Chernobyl NPP from Ukraine

Although most of the location filming in the series took place at the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant in Lithuania, which has the same type of reactors as Chernobyl, the footage from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the series was the work of the Kyiv studio Postmodern digital.

Views of the station and the area around it - this is a computer model that was created back in 2013 for another series about Chernobyl - “Moths”.

HBO used Ukrainian computer graphics to refine it.

Still from the TV series “Moths”. Photo: video frame YouTube / FILM.UA Group

“It’s cool to watch the HBO show and see your work. To reproduce the model of the station, we studied archival photos, calculated the scale, understood the operation of the reactor, so that everything looked real,” says Egor Borshchevsky, head of Postmodern digital, about the work on the Chernobyl nuclear power plant model.

For special effects in 2014, the Ukrainian series “Moths” was nominated for the prestigious Hollywood VES Awards, which is called the “Oscar” in the world of visual effects, but the award then went to “Game of Thrones”.

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