K-19 The Widowmaker
Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama, History, Thriller
Release Year: 2002
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Canada
Runtime: 138
Rating: 6.6 (0)
Languages: English, Russian
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Sound: DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
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Writing by: Louis Nowra - (story)
Christopher Kyle - (screenplay)
Produced by: Kathryn Bigelow - producer
Moritz Borman - executive producer
Winship Cook - associate producer
Steve Danton - associate producer
Guy East - executive producer
Edward S. Feldman - producer
Harrison Ford - executive producer
Oliver Hengst - line producer
Basil Iwanyk - co-producer
Steven-Charles Jaffe - co-producer
Samara Koffler - associate producer
Mary Montiforte - co-producer
Dieter Nobbe - executive producer
Brent OConnor - co-producer
Volker Schauz - executive producer
Sigurjon Sighvatsson - producer
Nigel Sinclair - executive producer
Leonid Vereschtchaguine - line producer
Christine Whitaker - producer
Mark Wolfe - co-producer
Cast: Sam Spruell - Dmitri
Peter Stebbings - Kuryshev
Christian Camargo - Pavel
Roman Podhora - Lapinsh
Sam Redford - Vasily
Steve Nicolson - Demichev
Liam Neeson - Mikhail Polenin
Ravil Isyanov - Suslov
Tim Woodward - Partonov
Lex Shrapnel - Kornilov
Shaun Benson - Leonid
Music: Klaus Badelt
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Plot Outline: When Russias first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
Plot: The story of USSRs first nuclear ballistic submarine, which suffered a malfunction in its nuclear reactor on its maiden voyage in the North Atlantic in 1961. The submarines crew, led by the unyielding Captain Alexi Vostrikov, races against time to prevent a Chernobyl-like nuclear disaster which threatens not only the lives of his crew, but has the potential to ignite a world war between the super powers.
Crazy Credits: We know about 2 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The Warner Bros. logo is preceded by a trailer for a Buck Rogers serial (or in early versions, a one-minute scene from Things to Come (1936)).
Goofs: We know about 14 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: When the submarine is leaving the berth, and the two captains are on the tower, the nearby flag blows away from them in the close-up shots. In the long shots, the flag (and other smoke) blows the other direction.
Trivia: There are 19 entries in the trivia list - like these:
- The Russian submarine used for filming was sold to the USS Saratoga Museum Foundation in Rhode Island for uses as an exhibit.
- Tom Stoppard, as script doctor, did a re-write uncredited on the script.
- The actual K-19 was a Hotel-class ballistic missile submarine. The sub used in the movie is a modified Juliet-class guided missile submarine. The rescue sub in the film appears to be the SSK 73 RCN Onondaga, which was a Royal Canadian Navy submarine of the Ojibwa class (Improved British Oberon Class, or Super Os) which was launched on September 25, 1965 (four years after the K-19 incident).
