K-19: The Widowmaker is the Russian answer to Run Silent, Run Deep/Crimson Tide, except that it's about as Russian as Michael Apted’s Gorky Park – still, not bad company to be in at all. Like Gorky Park, which had two late greats in Will Hurt and Brian Dennehy, K-19 gravitates around two solid performers: Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson in the Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster/Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington roles from RS, RD and Crimson Tide, respectively (also like Gorky Park, there is no trace of Russian other than what can be read here and there; the fact that everyone here speaks the same…
“Fate has found its hero.”
When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
- Status
- Released
- Original Language
- English
- Production
- Intermedia Films, Palomar Pictures, First Light, IMF Internationale Medien und Film 2 & Produktions, K-19 Film Production, National Geographic Films, Studio Trite, Working Title
- Budget
- $100M
- Box Office
- $65.7M
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Cast
Harrison FordAlexei Vostrikov
Liam NeesonMikhail Polenin
Peter SarsgaardVadim Radtchinko
Joss AcklandMarshal Zelentsov
John ShrapnelAdmiral Bratyeev
Donald SumpterDr. Savran
Tim WoodwardPartonov
Steve NicolsonDemichev
George AntonKonstantin
James Francis GintyAnatoly
Lex ShrapnelKornilov
Ingvar E. SigurðssonGorelovMedia
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User Reviews
A rather clunky cold-war maritime thriller that manages to mix plausible science with shallow propaganda in a rather cack-handed fashion - and a (mis)casting that gives the film the same sinking feeling that the submarine must have felt when it first put to sea. It's a synch that the 2-kopeck systems aboard this state of the art Russian boat "K-19" are going to cause the maiden voyage to be riddled with dangers, and Captain Harrison Ford who blindly believes that nothing can possibly go wrong both before and after the boat sets sail leads to loads of crew resentment - not least from…
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When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
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