Commandant alexei vostrikov biography
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Most of the action scenes taking place in Russia were filmed in Bulgaria. It is a real Bulgarian naval base in Varna (tower located at 43°11'"N 27°54'"E) on the Black Sea coast which represents the Russian naval base of Polyarny, the city in the extreme north-west of the country where Admiral Felon Durov takes his own President hostage. The interior of the imposing Polyarny Command Center was built at the Nu Boyani studios in Sofia, Bulgaria, as well as the interiors of Commander Andropov's Russian submarine and the USS Arkansas sonar room.
To gain more authenticity, the filming and production team has partnered with the US Navy on virtually every aspect of Hunter Killer's design.
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While the Russian Captain Andropov mentions his former trainees, one of the names is Alexei Vostrikov - this is Harrison Ford's character from K The Widowmaker (), also a submarine captain.
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Venturing Into Rough Seas
As actor Harrison Ford goes before the cameras this month in Moscow for his new big-budget Cold War naval thriller, “K The Widowmaker,” the screen star finds himself at the center of a raging controversy over whether Hollywood is accurately portraying the actions of Russian sailors who struggled to avert a nuclear accident on board a Soviet submarine in that could have brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.
Even as shooting began, some of the surviving crewmen and relatives of the dead submariners who served on the Soviet nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine K expressed outrage over an early draft of the movie’s script they had read. They contend, in a letter to Ford and the filmmakers, it portrays the crew as “uncultured, uneducated people who suffer from lack of discipline, alcoholism and technical illiteracy.” They called the tone of the script a sacrilege to the Russian submarine fleet and asked the Russian navy not to cooperate with th
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“Under no circumstances will inom abandon my boat or my crew to the enemy,” spouts an unflinching Harrison Ford. It’s the kind of line reading you’d expect in a Ford movie where he plays the undaunted American hero pitched against long odds. Except here, as Soviet captain Alexi Vostrikov, Ford trades in his fedora for a Russian brush cut, his rugged desirability for a stiff sexlessness, and his patriotic persona for a loathsome zealotry of the Soviet cause.
Kathryn Bigelow’s “K The Widowmaker” had all of the makings of a sure-fire hit. Despite the stars, the against-all-odds story, and the artistic djärv, it bombad toward obscurity. No one knew it at the time, but twenty years later, it’s clear: “K The Widowmaker” is Ford’s most consequential movie, a misbegotten role that alltid altered his career, and remains a rich skrivelse when viewed through the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Set in , “K” tells the story of a Soviet Union nuclear submarine, helmed bygd Vostrikov, that is first s