The Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station is the most powerful in Russia and the sixth most powerful in the world. It was built during the Soviet Union, from 1963 to 1978 on the Yenisei River in Siberia. In 2009, one of the world's largest man-made disasters occurred at the hydroelectric power station, which claimed the lives of 75 people. It took five years and 40 billion rubles to resume operation of the station. And although the exact cause of the accident has not yet been established, the engineers accused of the accident have been jailed. The accident showed that the Soviet legacy is still firmly in the minds of people, many of whom live in the past and are afraid of the future. The wear and tear of equipment, the backwardness of technology, corruption, a corrupt court, and propaganda based on the cult of "back to the USSR" portend new man-made disasters…
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Alina Rudnitskaya Director · Leonid Nikitinskij Screenplay Alexandr Zaripov Composer
First release August 11, 2016 · Produced in Russia · Original title Катастрофа
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Russia
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Original title
Катастрофа
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · August 11, 2016
Premiere · Vyborg International Film Festival
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