The Icebreaker (Russian: Ледокол, romanized: Ledokol) is a 2016 Russian disaster film directed by Nikolay Khomeriki. The plot of the film is based in part on the real events that occurred in 1985 with the icebreakerMikhail Somov [ru], which was trapped by Antarctic ice and spent 133 days in forced drift.
The film premiered in Russia on October 20, 2016.[1]
Plot
In the Spring of 1985. The icebreaker "Mikhail Somov" is off the coast of Antarctica. While navigating, the ship heads towards an iceberg and Captain Petrov starts to take measures to avoid it. The captain's efforts are hindered when a passenger and dog fall overboard. Because of the rescue operation, the ship fails to avoid the iceberg and sustains damage.
The First Officer, who has shown antipathy towards the Captain due to his perception that the Captain runs a lax ship radios the undefined “Ministry” in Leningrad, to which the Ministry issues orders removing the captain.
A new captain Valentin Sevchenko, a man of uncompromising and domineering power, is sent to the ship by helicopter. He immediately enters into a confrontation with Andrei Petrov, accusing the latter of disorder and as a consequence of the misfortune that has occurred. Under the control of Sevchenko, the icebreaker rises in the ice. His actions to the extreme heat up the already heavy atmosphere on the ship: the sailors are starting to give up nerves, which provokes conflict within the team. In anticipation of rescue, the crew of the ship spends 133 days among the ice.
Boris Kamorzin as Belyaev, member of the expedition
Vyacheslav Pasyukov as sailor
Aleksandr Oblasov as Leva, a passenger fell overboard
Margarita Bychkova as Nina
Aleksey Ilyin as polar explorer
Aleksandr Plaksin as polar explorer
Stanislav Ryadinskiy as Boris Zorkin, radio operator
Igor Khripunov as Tikhonov
Anatoly Khropov as Chernogortsev
Aleksandr Pokatnev as sailor
Gleb Glebov as sailor
Aleksey Shupletsov as sailor
Artyom Krysin as sailor
Sergey Gorbunov as sailor
Vladimir Pachin as sailor
Aleksey Ruchkov as sailor
Production
Nuclear icebreaker "Lenin" 2013
Filming took place in severe weather conditions in Murmansk, Saint Petersburg, Sevastopol and in the mountains of the Kola Peninsula - Khibiny for 3.5 months. The 1957 nuclear icebreaker Lenin was used, which has now been taken out of service 1989 and parked permanently in Murmansk.[2]
Box office
During the opening weekend, the film led the Russian rental market, bypassing the American action movie Jack Reacher: Never Go Back with Tom Cruise in the title role and collecting 127.3 million rubles (129). However, even so, the film at the box office collected less than 3/5 of the amount spent on it.
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