K-19: The Widowmaker

When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.

Cast

Harrison Ford

as Alexei Vostrikov

Liam Neeson

as Mikhail Polenin

Peter Sarsgaard

as Vadim Radtchinko

Joss Ackland

as Marshal Zelentsov

John Shrapnel

as Admiral Bratyeev

Donald Sumpter

as Dr. Savran

Tim Woodward

as Partonov

Steve Nicolson

as Demichev

George Anton

as Konstantin

James Francis Ginty

as Anatoly

Reviews

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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 p...

CinemaSerf

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 system...

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