The Admiral (2008 film)
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| Directed by | Andrei Kravchuk |
| Produced by |
Janik Faysiev Konstantin Ernst |
| Written by |
Zoya Kudrya Vladimir Valutskiy |
| Starring |
Konstantin Khabensky Elizaveta Boyarskaya Sergey Bezrukov Anna Kovalchuk |
| Music by | Gleb Matveychuk |
| Cinematography | Igor Grinyakin Aleksei Rodionov |
| Edited by | Tom Rolf |
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Release date
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October 9, 2008 |
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Running time
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123 minutes |
| Country | Russia |
| Language |
Russian French |
| Budget | $20 million |
| Box office | $78,287,970 |
The Admiral (Russian: Адмиралъ Admiral) is a 2008 biopic about Alexander Kolchak, a Vice-Admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy and leader of the anti-communist White Movement during the Russian Civil War. The film also depicts the love triangle between the Admiral, his wife, and the poet Anna Timiryova.
According to director Andrei Kravchuk,
"[The film is] about a man who tries to create history, to take an active part in history, as he gets caught in the turmoil. However, he keeps on struggling, he preserves his honour and his dignity, and he continues to love."
The film opens during the production of War and Peace at Mosfilm Studios in 1964. An elderly Russian noblewoman is set to appear as a film extra until her past comes to light. Although the film's political commissar demands her dismissal since she is a "wife of an enemy of the revolution", director Sergei Bondarchuk is adamant that he needs faces like hers for the production. As the commissar realises the difficulty of identifying her using the file he has, he immediately recognises the elderly woman behind him as the woman he is searching for, while the elderly woman is looking at her own 1910s photo.
The film flashes back to the Baltic Sea in 1914. Captain Alexander Kolchak (Konstantin Khabensky) is laying naval mines from his ship in German territorial waters when he runs across SMS Friedrich Carl, an armoured cruiser of the German Imperial Navy. As chaos reigns on his ship, Kolchak sights in one of the guns and succeeds in seriously damaging the bridge of the German vessel. This buys him only a brief respite, however.
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