K-19: A Widowmaker occurs as moving picture freed July 19, 2002, about a number 1 of several disasters that befell a Soviet submarine K-19. A motion picture was directed by Kathryn Bigelow; the screenplay was written by Christopher Kyle based on a story by Louis Nowra.

the flick numbers $100,000,000 to produce but only grossed $35m in the United states, making it a pack-professional bomb. a film was non financed by a major studio making it one of the virtually all expensive independent films up to now.

A Hotel class submarine K-19 was played by the Juliett class submarine K-77, which was significantly modified for the role.

Klaus Badelt wrote the film's militaristic score.

Controversy about the script
A pic's script aroused considerable ire once it was review per original crew of K-19. Both open (freely reprintable) letters were sent to a actors & production team, of these from either either many officers & crewman, a more from the boat's captain.

A producers manufactured important changes to a script & the revised portrayal of the Soviet crew was additional reverential. Many scenes were cut & a list of a crew were changed at the asking of the crewmembers & their families. Whenever a film was premiered around Russia inside October, 2002, 52 veterans of the K-19 submarine were flown inside to the St. Petersburg premier. Despite several technical indicator & historical issues that remained (from either a require to appease a general theatre-running audience), a film & Ford's performance particularly standard high marks from either the two.

Cast

Harrison Ford: Cpt. Alexis Vostrikov Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson: Viktor Gorelov Joss Ackland George Anton: Konstantin Poliansky Shaun Benson: Leonid Pashinski Christian Camargo: Pavel Loktev Dmitry Chepovetsky: Sergei Maximov Steve Cumyn: Oleg Falichev Svetlana Efremova: Elena JJ Feild: Andrei Pritoola James Ginty: Anatoly Starkov Michael J.X. Gladis: Yevgeny Borzenkov Kristen Holden-Reid: Anton Malahov Ravil Issyanov: Igor Suslov Mark Antony Krupa: Georgi Liam Neeson: Capt. Polenin Steve Nicolson: Yuri Demichev Peter Oldring: Vanya Belov Sam Redford: Vasily Mishin Christopher Routh: Oleg Argunov Tygh Runyan: Maxim Portenko Peter Sarsgaard: Vadim Radtchenko John Shrapnel Lex Shrapnel: Mikhail Kornilov Sam Spruell: Dimitri Nevsky Austin Strugnell: Yakov Rakitin Donald Sumpter: Dr. Savran Gerrit Vooren: Dmitri Voslensky Tim Woodward

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