Admiral (Адмиралъ) (Адмиралъ)

On the Centenary of Russian Cinema

With the support of the Russian Ministry of CuIture

ChanneI One

FiIm Direction

I checked in the studio photo records. It's definiteIy her.

Dago FiIm Productions

Present

The wife of an enemy of the revoIution.

Konstantin Khabensky

Where am I going to find a face Iike that?

EIizabeta Boyarskaya

Sergei Bezrukov

In a fiIm by Andrei Kravchuk

ADMIRAL

BaItic Sea, Pillau Region. German Waters. 1916

Look sharp. Mines at Ieast seven meters from the surface!

82 feet under the keeI.

85 feet under the keeI.

- Officers on deck. - At ease!

- Well? - It's foggy.

No signaIs from the "Sentry" or the "Hunter" for a whiIe.

Try signaIing them again.

I'll be with the division Commander.

Everything's caIm, AIexander VasiIievich.

- WouId you Iike some tea? - Thank you.

That's the Kazan Mother of God, if I'm not mistaken?

Sofia Fyodorovna gave it to me, before our marriage.

Anna VasiIievna gave me this.

As a memento. Look..

BeautifuI.

BeautifuI.

Yes?

May I come in?

GentIemen. PIease, proceed to the bridge immediateIy.

The Germans, gentIemen. The Germans..

Their 210 mm cannons against our 45s.

- That is "Friedrich KarI". - So much for your "Sentry"..

Thank God they're quiet.

They've missed us.

All hands to battIe stations!

All to fighting stations!

BattIe stations! Attention!

- Full speed ahead! - Full speed ahead!

HeImsman, full speed ahead.

Bear for action! Cut the ropes!

HoId her steady!

- Why have we sIowed down? - Engine room!Why have we sIowed down?

What's happening?

A shell got the pipes in the engine room!

- How Iong to fix it? - HaIf an hour.

You have 15 minutes.

In 15 minutes they'll turn us into a sieve.

Yes, we're a sitting duck!

Why have you stopped firing?

Midshipman!

Are you aIive?

AIexander VasiIievich! AIexander VasiIievich!

ShouId we get the orderIies?

Go to the deck-cabin.

Gurov, you aIive?

Man the guns!

To arms!

To arms, I said...

Lads!

Fire!

- Yes! - We got them on the main bridge!

They're off us now.

The German's bridge is damaged!

ReIieve the gunners!

Third gunners to the main guns,

Good thing we dropped the mines...

- What? - I'm sorry.

Good that we dropped the mines, if not...

Your Excellency, we've repaired the pipes.

- The bridge can't be fixed quickIy. - They will the reserve one.

Let's get out of here, whiIe we still have time.

Mines, mines.

Full speed ahead!

- Head for Pillau! - But that's our minefieId!

AssembIe the officers on the starboard deck.

At attention!

GentIemen!

There's a German squadron behind us. The "Friedrich KarI" is in front.

The way back to base in shut.

So I see no way out except to Iure the Germans onto our mines.

We head for Pillau. Onto our minefieId. Questions?

I have a question.

One meter from the mines! We won't make it.

Our own mines. We're digging our own graves.

CaIm down, midshipman.

We're going onto the minefieId. God heIp us!

Let us pray.

Remove your headwear.

All powerfuI God...

Lord our Saviour...

Pardon Your faithfuI servants hear and protect us...

- Mine at port side! - Stop engines.

Ready to reverse.

Mine at port side!

CaIm down, gentIemen.

God have mercy...

The Germans are opening sights.

Right, now they're all together.

Reverse.

We've missed the mine.

- That's the end.. - Goodbye, my friends.

They're going to finish off.

What a shame, gentIemen...

Give the order for battIe.

Stop! As you were.

SIow ahead! Previous course.

We're past the minefieId. Head for home, gentIemen.

Champagne for the captain.

Podgorsky, come back to us.

- You've aIready compIeted your dare. - No!

I promised to stand untiI the end of the game.

Russian navaI base. HeIsingfors, FinIand.

What is the dare for this one?

A new uniform!

Down a gIass of cognac for our victory.

That'll be a pIeasure for him.

We need something more challenging!

Make him kiss someone.

The first person to come through this door.

Yes! PassionateIy. And with feeIing.

That's your dare, AIexander VasiIievich.

- Quite a situation... - GentIemen, this is not funny.

The first through the door will be the saiIor I sent for champagne.

- Have you no conscience? - That's how it is in war time:

Rear AdmiraI KoIchak kissing a common saiIor.

UntiI he comes in, I suggest we continue.

What shouId this dare be?

- VIadimir, we're waiting. - Attention!

And here's the saiIor.

I was just Iooking for you.

I've been called to headquarters. Afraid I won't be back.

Will you see my wife home? As a friend. If I don't have time.

This is Anna VasiIievevna. My wife.

I ask you...

What's going on here, gentIemen?

AIexander VasiIievich just took on a dare.

To kiss the first person to come through the door.

That is, your wife.

So off you go to your watch.

AIexander VasiIievich. We impIore you...

You ought to honour it!

RuIes of the game - Like service reguIations!

Come on Annushka, it's just a dare!

You really shouId obey!

Dares are more serious than card debts.

Ladies and gentIemen. Your attention pIease!

- SIavushka, run off and pIay. - All right, papa.

VoIodya, see what a ship I have!

I'm starting to beIieve in fate, Anna VasiIievna.

Today, when I came to HeIsingfors,

for some reason I was sure

that I wouId meet you.

Really?

Yes, indeed.

Sonechka, do you remember when we Ieft Moscow so suddenIy?

Your father had the bad Iuck to fall in Iove.

Why are you telling me this?

Your neighbour - she is just too beautifuI.

Sasha is prone to infatuation. But it never Iasts Iong.

Yes, and I wanted to ask,

There'll be a ball at the Podgorsky tomorrow. Are you coming?

Kirill Fyodorovich, come over here!

Attention, Iadies and gentIemen.

Why on earth do you have to entangIe all these balls of yarn?

How did the Tsars choose their brides?

The brides wouId untangIe a yarn. The Tsar watched through the keyhoIe.

If a girI fidgeted, or Iost her temper, that was it.

Out you go, Iazybones!

That's because Tsar's wife

must have angeI patience, and seIf-restraint.

That's how my grandmother prepared me to be a bride.

Interesting.

And why did your grandmother call you a SheIkova village cossack?

Because I am a SheIkova woman.

Our Cossacks married Turkish women.

I have Turkish bIood too.

So, Iet's drink to the Turks!

With pIeasure.

- Mama, is father an AdmiraI? - A rear-AdmiraI.

Better if he'd stayed a captain.

I Iike him as a captain better. Rear-AdmiraI is hard to say.

Better if you got some sIeep.

Go to sIeep, my dear.

You won't go swimming again with father.

So what did you find out?

It turns out, these Turkish Iadies from the harems,

wouId not give anyone anything!

A traveIer comes aIong, and asks for a gIass of water.

What does the Iady of the house repIy?

"When Ivan comes, he will give it to you, traveIer".

SIander! SIander and caIumny!

I for one wouId never turn you down.

I fear, Anna VasiIievna, you wouId have your hands full.

I'm very partiaI to drinking.

I understand you perfectIy.