Archive for March, 2009

The successful businessman Nikita has now the opportunity to travel into 19th century both due to his friends who organized this great adventure and to his abuse of alcohol. Nikita Petrovych now lives in the large estate and is well away including also the attention of attractive housekeeper.

But owing to the excessive interests of young barin to his new horizons the situation is not going according to the planned scenario. And particularly the film director being at the same time the barin`s steward is disturbed by his serious interest to the countrywoman Zaryana, instead of the planned marriage with the housekeeper.

Personal author`s opinion: Not bad as for the low budget and sad ex facte Russian film. Several times it even causes the smile. And I, personally, liked the Maykov`s acting.

Directed by:

Nikholai Potapov

Cast:

Pavel Maykov, Anna Kuzina, Oxana Filonenko, Ivan Bortnik, Igor Tikhomirov, Andrey Pavlenko, Maxim Konovalov, Yuriy Dubrovin, Sergey Gavrilyuk and others

Production:

PC «Alyaska», Russia, 2007

Feature:

Comedy

Duration:

98 min.

It is one more Russian expensive film made for the last several years. And possibly it could be the most successful one. The film`s budget amounted 20 mln USD, it was seen by the 5,5mln audience. Most of them highly appreciated the work of Andrey Kravchuk.

The film story is based on the real historical events. It is the story of struggle and love of the great admiral Alexander Vasilyevych Kolchak, that became famous at the times of the Russian Empire downfall. Even despite of the some historical inaccuracies “The Admiral” deserves to be called the film of high quality and repaid until the showing in cinemas.

The author`s personal opinion: I`ve heard a lot of various characteristics before the viewing: “boring”, “despondently”, “wimpy” intertwined with inspiring and positive opinions. But, as the saying goes, every man to his own taste. One more time I assured – it is quite true. As for my opinion – I could estimate it as weak 5.

IMDB rating: 7,1/10.

Trailer:

Directed by:

Andrey Kravchuk

Cast:

Konstantin Khabenskiy, Yelizaveta Boyarskaya, Sergey Bezrukov, Vladislav Vetrov, Yegor Beroyev, Anna Kovalchuk

Production:

Film Direction, Russia, 2008

Feature:

Drama, History, War

Duration:

123 min.

Additional information:

International Movie Database