HBO’s five-part miniseries “Chernobyl” came to an end June 3 with a stirring finale that exposed the physical and psychological toll the 1986 disaster left in its wake. Fans of the series hoping to further investigate the disaster are in luck as “Chernobyl” producer and writer Craig Mazin took to social media after the finale’s airing to share a handful of books and movies he used while researching and developing the project.
Mazin’s recommendations include books such as Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich’s “Voices From Chernobyl” and photography collections such as Gerd Ludvig’s “The Long Shadow of Chernobyl” that helped inform the show’s grey and blue-scale cinematography.
As for the movies that Mazin recommends, the list includes titles that pre-date the Chernobyl disaster (Elem Klimov’s landmark 1977 Russian war drama “Come and See”) and other films that directly explore the disaster’s aftermath.
“Come and See” was especially notable for Mazin,...
Mazin’s recommendations include books such as Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich’s “Voices From Chernobyl” and photography collections such as Gerd Ludvig’s “The Long Shadow of Chernobyl” that helped inform the show’s grey and blue-scale cinematography.
As for the movies that Mazin recommends, the list includes titles that pre-date the Chernobyl disaster (Elem Klimov’s landmark 1977 Russian war drama “Come and See”) and other films that directly explore the disaster’s aftermath.
“Come and See” was especially notable for Mazin,...
- 6/4/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize for Literature this morning. I underestimated her, and it cost me. Alexievich is a Belarusian journalist whose oral histories have chronicled upheavals in the Soviet and post-Soviet spheres: War’s Unwomanly Face, about the role of Soviet women in World War II; The Last Witnesses, about children in the same war; Grozny Boys, about the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan; Enchanted With Death, about suicides after the fall of the Soviet Union. For years, Belarus’s government had expelled her from the country, but she returned to live in Minsk in 2011. Her books have sold millions of copies in Russian. Four of them have appeared in English, most recently Voices From Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster, published by Dalkey Archive Press in 2005. Today I spoke to its translator, Keith Gessen, an old friend of mine who’s also a novelist, founder...
- 10/8/2015
- by Christian Lorentzen
- Vulture
This year's winner of the Nobel Prize for literature is Belarusian historian and journalist Svetlana Alexievich, the Swedish Academy announced today. Best known for her groundbreaking oral history Voices From Chernobyl, Alexievich was awarded the prestigious prize "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time." She is the 14th woman to receive the award, and the first nonfiction writer since Jean-Paul Sartre in 1964. For each of her works, Alexievich enlists hundreds of regular people to tell their stories of the major events in Soviet and Belarusian history. "I'm writing a history of human feelings," she explains on her web site. "What people thought, understood and remembered during the event. What they believed in or mistrusted, what illusions, hopes and fears they experienced." Besides Voices From Chernobyl, Alexievich has also written Zinky Boys, an account of the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, and War's Unwomanly Face, an...
- 10/8/2015
- by Nate Jones
- Vulture
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