The Man Who Saved The World Stanislav Petrov

On 26 september 1983 three weeks after the soviet military had shot down korean air lines flight 007 petrov was the duty officer at the command center for the oko nuclear early warning system when the system reported that a missile had been launched from the united states followed by up to five more.
The man who saved the world stanislav petrov. Stanislav petrov a former soviet military officer poses at his home in 2015 near moscow. Directed by peter anthony. In 1983 he was on duty when the soviet. He was honored at the united nations received the dresden peace prize and was profiled in the documentary.
Stanislav yevgrafovich petrov was a lieutenant colonel of the soviet air defence forces who played a key role in the 1983 soviet nuclear false alarm incident. Petrov judged the reports to be a fa. With stanislav petrov kevin costner sergey shnyryov nataliya vdovina. This is the true story of an extraordinary event in september 1983 at the height of the cold war when the world was saved from a nuclear armageddon by the cool thinking insight and humanity of one man.
The man who saved the world is anthony s international debut as a feature length film director. After the cold war petrov would receive a number of commendations for saving the world. That man was soviet army lieutenant colonel stanislav petrov on duty that night in a nuclear early warning centre outside moscow. Stanislav petrov who saved the world from ww3 talks about his life as retiree and shares his opinions on the cold war with actor kevin costner in this melancholic mixture of documentary and reenacted footage.
Stanislav petrov the man who saved the world dies at 77.