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A sweeping historical epic in the tradition of Doctor Zhivago, The Admiral tells the story of Alexander Kolchak (Konstantin Khabensky),...
A sweeping historical epic in the tradition of Doctor Zhivago, The Admiral tells the story of Alexander Kolchak (Konstantin Khabensky), one of the White Army’s most controversial commanders. Married to Sofia and with a young son, Kolchak nevertheless falls heavily for Anna, the wife of a friend and fellow officer. Although Kolchak and Anna initially try to resist their passion and are separated in the chaos of the Revolution, they eventually unite in Siberia, where Kolchak is fighting the Bolsheviks on the banks of the Ushakovka River.
One of the most expensive Russian films ever made (the budget is reported to have been around $20 million), no expense has been spared on the lavish set pieces, costumes, and full-scale orchestral score. (Source: Seattle International Film Festival 2009)
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"Director Kravchuk, whose last outing, The Italian, was the Dickensian story of a 6-year-old boy's search for the mother who abandoned him at birth, is in grander mode here, helming what claims to be, at US$20 million ($28 million), the biggest-budget film in Russian cinema history."
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New Zealand Herald
New Zealand Herald"Sweeping historical epics don't get much more sweeping, or historical, than this. Set in Russia as the country fought the Germans and then themselves during World War 1 and the 1917 revolution, this is a big-screen spectacle of a scale we haven't seen down our way in years."
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Dominion Post
Dominion PostThe Admiral | Details
- Rating
- M, contains war footage
- Runtime
- 118
- Genre
- Drama, War
- Country of origin
- Russia
