Directed by Johan Renck   Written by Craig Mazin   Cast Douggie McMeekin ... Yuvchenko Jamie Sives ... Sitnikov Michael Socha ... Mikhail Adam Nagaitis ... Vasily Ignatenko Jan Ricica ... Oksana's Kid Laura Elphinstone ... Oksana Jessie Buckley ... Lyudmilla Ignatenko Paul Ritter ... Anatoly Dyatlov Adrian Rawlins ... Nikolai Fomin Con O'Neill ... Viktor Bryukhanov Jared Harris ... Valery Legasov Simonas Dovidauskas ... KGB Driver Alan Williams ... KGB Chairman Charkov Emily Watson ... Ulana Khomyuk Stellan Skarsgård ... Boris Shcherbina Michael McElhatton ... Prosecutor Andrei Stepashin Hilton McRae ... Judge Milan Kadnikov Robert Emms ... Leonid Toptunov Kieran O'Brien ... Khodemchuck Jay Simpson ... Perevozchenko Ross Armstrong ... Nikolai Gorbachenko Adam Lundgren ... Brazhnik Karl Davies ... Viktor Proskuryakov Billy Postlethwaite ... Boris Stolyarchuk Sam Troughton ... Alexandr Akimov Paulius Markevicius ... Aleksandr Kudryavstev Joshua Leese ... Kirschenbaum Karolis Kasperavicius ... Viktor Degtaryenko Uncredited Cast Mikhail Gorbachev ... Self (archive footage) Produced by Jane Featherstone   Chris Fry   Robert How   Jacqueline Lesko   Craig Mazin   Anne Mensah   Lina Miseikyte   Johan Renck   Gabriel Silver   Darko Skulsky   Tanya Sokolova   Carolyn Strauss   Gary Tuck   Sanne Wohlenberg   Jane Yatsuta   Original Music by Hildur Guðnadóttir

Additional Info Premiere: June 03, 2019 DVD Release: October 01, 2019 Blu-ray Release: October 01, 2019 Countries: Distributor: HBO Studios Websites: Production Companies Home Box Office (HBO) Sister Pictures (produced by) Sky Television The Mighty Mint (produced by) Word Games (produced by) Distributors Home Box Office (HBO)   (2019) (USA) (TV) HBO Max   (2020) (USA) (video) (VOD) Rating Stats Overall Rating -- / 10 Our Rating -- / 10 Your Friends -- / 10 Male Users -- / 10 Female Users -- / 10 Site Ranking #126 / 20,924 Site Ranking