Zateyev’s published memoirs did in fact serve as part of the source material for the movie. Zateyev was considered to be an ambitious and capable officer by his superiors, as affirmed by his early promotion from Marshall Georgy Zhukov (then-Defense Minister of the USSR) at the young age of 32.Ĭapt. But the real-life Captain’s name was Nikolai Vladimirovich Zateyev, not Alexei Vostrikov. Harrison Ford bears a fairly passable resemblance to the real-life skipper of the K-19 during the vessel’s 1961 maiden voyage, and the rank of Captain 1st Rank (the equivalent of an O-6/Captain in the U.S. With that in mind, let’s take a deeper dive (bad submarine pun intended) into the real story of the K-19 and see where the filmmakers deviated from reality. However, as is typical of Hollywood, even when they tell a “true” story, they embellish it for entertainment purposes. In fairness, yes, the late great Tom Clancy also did base his original bestselling novel very loosely upon a true story, but in that real-world instance, the Storozhevoy was a surface ship, not a submarine, and what’s more, the mastermind, Valery Sablin, was a dyed-in-the-wool Communist, not a freedom-seeking defector. A big plus about the latter film is that it’s based on a true story. K-19: The Widowmaker, starring Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson, was not as successful with either critics or at the box office, but nonetheless remains an entertaining and memorable film about a Cold War-era Soviet nuclear submarine. The Hunt for Red October, starring the late great Sir Sean Conner y, was a huge hit with film critics and moviegoing audiences alike.
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