K-19: The Widowmaker 2002

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 132 min

genre: historical

theme: submarine

director: Kathryn Bigelow

Score: 6 / 10

K-19: The Widowmaker is a 2002 historical submarine film directed and produced by Kathryn Bigelow, and produced by Edward S. Feldman, Sigurjon Sighvatsson, Christine Whitaker and Matthias Deyle with screenplay by Christopher Kyle. An international production of the US, UK, Germany and Canada, the film takes place in 1961 and focuses its story on the Soviet K-19 submarine.

Plot

In 1961, the Soviet Union launches its first ballistic missile nuclear submarine, the ''K-19'', commanded by Captain Alexei Vostrikov (Harrison Ford), with executive officer Mikhail Polenin (Liam Neeson), the crew's original captain. Vostrikov is alleged to have been appointed through his wife's political connections, as well as Polenin's tendency to put crew morale and safety before Soviet pride. Discovering the reactor officer drunk and asleep on duty, Vostrikov fires him, receiving a replacement, Vadim Radtchenko (Peter Sarsgaard), fresh from the academy. Bad luck surrounds the launch; the medical officer is killed by a truck and replaced by command's foremost medical officer, who has never been out to sea, and the inaugural bottle of champagne fails to break on the bow.

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More details

author	Christopher Kyle
contentLocation	Moscow Soviet Union
director	Kathryn Bigelow
editor	Walter Murch
events	Soviet submarine K-19
genre	drama historical
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musicBy	Klaus Badelt
producer	Christine Whitaker Edward S. Feldman Kathryn Bigelow Matthias Deyle Sigurjón Sighvatsson
productionCompany	Intermedia Films National Geographic Society New Regency Pictures
publisher	Paramount Pictures
recordedAt	Moscow Nova Scotia Pinewood Studios Russia Toronto
theme	death disaster submarine survival