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6.2This is a story of a great love facing the greatest drama of the history of Russia. Admiral Kolchak is a true war hero and beloved husband and father. One day he meets Anna, the love of his life and the wife of his best friend. The revolution in his heart faces the revolution in his own country His destiny is to become the Supreme Ruler of Russia.
Cast
- Konstantin Khabenskiy as Alexander Kolchak
- Elizaveta Boyarskaya as Anna
- Sergei Bezrukov as General Kappel
- Anna Kovalchuk as Sofia
- Egor Beroev as Mikhail Smirnov
- Richard Bohringer as General Maurice Zhannen
Themes
- st. petersburg, russia
- 1910s
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Ratings
IMDb
6.6/10
8,949 votes
- Year
- 2008
- Runtime
- 124 min
- Genres
- Biography, Drama, History
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Awards
- 9 wins & 9 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Andrei Kravchuk
- Written by
- Zoya Kudrya Vladimir Valutsky
- Based on
- Life of Alexander Kolchak
- Produced by
- Dzhanik Fayziev Anatoliy Maksimov Dmitry Yurkov
- Starring
- Konstantin Khabensky Elizaveta Boyarskaya Sergey Bezrukov Anna Kovalchuk
- Cinematography
- Igor Grinyakin Aleksei Rodionov
- Edited by
- Tom Rolf
- Music by
- Gleb Matveychuk Ruslan Muratov
- Distributed by
- 20th Century Fox
- Release date
- October 9, 2008 ( 2008-10-09 )
- Running time
- 124 minutes
- Country
- Russia
- Languages
- Russian French
- Budget
- $22 million
- Box office
- $39.15 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Admiral (Russian: Адмиралъ; stylized to resemble pre-revolutionary Russian, modern spelling: Russian: Адмирал) 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.
An extended version of the movie was made into a 10-part TV mini-series which was shown by Channel One in 2009.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Admiral” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.