Hollywood knows all about the death of K-129 ...
In the 2013 year, 45 turned years since the death of the Soviet diesel-electric submarine K-129 (project 629А). In the early spring of 1968, the 98 of Soviet submariners were buried at a depth of about 5600 meters in the waters of the North Pacific. Until now (and again - more than 45 years have passed since the tragedy!) The true cause of the submarine disaster has not been named. All information about the death of sailors in Pacific waters is nothing more than a kaleidoscopic picture of disparate opinions and versions, each of which is worthy of attention, but each of them raises a large number of questions. Judgments, questions, strange facts, a thick fog of secrecy, enveloping the death of K-129 and its crew, layered over each other, sometimes resulting in very strange forms. In this material we will not put forward new theories and comment on the existing, let's say, professional versions of the death of a submarine. Now - about the other. About the next form, which causes a lot of questions.
The American filmmakers decided to present this form to the world, releasing the Phantom movie about the death of the K-129 boat this year, directed by Todd Robinson. No, of course, we had previously guessed that Hollywood screenwriters, directors and producers, as they say, do not bother about compliance historical accuracy and documentary in their films, especially if the films are dedicated to Soviet (Russian) reality. But this time it was still an overkill. It would seem that “Phantom” is a feature film, and therefore (well, at least today it has become customary to think so), it may not pretend to be a historically verified description, and it’s not possible to criticize its creators for unnecessarily moving away from any realities need to. But the fact is that Todd Robinson himself decided to show the viewer that his film is the real version of the reasons for the tragedy that happened with the Soviet submarine in 1968. Robinson shows this, without delay, at the beginning of the film with promising captions: "the film is based on real events."
We recently discussed here a picture of Fyodor Bondarchuk “Stalingrad”, and there were quite a few readers who reproached the Russian director for deviating from the image of the Battle of Stalingrad itself, and trying to emphasize interpersonal relations. At the same time, many wrote that it would have been better to have called the film somehow differently, if they did not intend to show the battle in detail. But the fact of the matter is that Bondarchuk did not seem to announce his “Stalingrad” as a picture with a sustained historical line, as a work that seeks to show the Battle of Stalingrad, as they say, one to one.
Hollywood gentlemen such subtleties, as it turned out, do not care. Someone from "Dream Factory" somewhere heard about the tragedy that befell the Soviet submarine in 1968 year, and decided that this could make money by supplying the film with classic American cliches about the Land of Soviets, KGB agents and grotesque characters with the constant addition of melodramatic lines.
I do not want to create this picture of additional advertising, but it is also impossible to pass by it. Why? The fact is that such films (about the USSR and Russia) are watched not only in the USA. The grateful viewer, obviously, can be found among us (and representatives of the younger generation as well). And if there is such a viewer, then he may get the impression that the submariners are exactly as shown by the American director Robinson, and that the submarine performed exactly the mission that was put forward in Hollywood in the waters of the world ocean.
So, in brief, what the picture is about ... The picture is about how a Soviet naval officer, who in past misdeeds (ordered to lock up part of the crew in the burning compartment of the submarine), didn’t have at his disposal a new submarine and stayed on land until for several years he was sent to the same boat on which the tragedy occurred. Moreover, they were sent for the mission, about which he did not know, but the officers of the State Security Committee, who were mixed with the rest of the crew, knew very well. The plan of KGB agents (where, without them, in a typical American film about our country) was the following: in the agreed area, launch a nuclear missile strike against the American enemy, covering up the secret development of the Phantom special services, which would give a Soviet strike for the Chinese, and then the nuclear war would begin between the USA and the PRC ...
From all this nonsense, based, as filmmakers say, "on real events" we can single out only one episode that is connected with reality: K-129 in 1968, in fact, carried nuclear weapon (P-21 ballistic missiles, as well as nuclear-powered torpedoes). The rest of the real events, of course, far from the events presented by the writers.
Well, God be with him - with the "secret phantom apparatus" Phantom "and, God forgive me, with the nuclear war between the USA and China, which the KGB officers" wanted "to organize. In the film, there are already enough mistakes that will not only cut vision and hearing for submariners, but also to any person who is at least casually interested in military service in the Soviet (Russian) army and navy.
In the picture there are so many inconsistencies and frankly disregarding attitude of its authors to historical reality, that according to this indicator it can be easily nominated for the award “The Best Collection of 2013 Blunders”.
Sailors demonstrate a military salute, putting a hand, as they say, to an “empty” head. One could assume that without a headdress the young men-sailors, who came into the fleet yesterday or the day before yesterday, "fluttered" with their hands, but in the foreground are senior Soviet officers ...
Next - appeal "captain". Simply - the captain ... Well, well, that at least not "cap" or "my captain." That is, if we do not assume that the Soviet "captain" has the name of Demi, which is somewhat not characteristic of our "longitudes and latitudes", and has an age (judging by the actor Ed Harris who is not particularly grimaced), which would be enough for two captains .. Basically, the film also has a KGB agent performed by David Duchovny - a certain Bruni. With that last name, and in the KGB? .. But there is also Alex on the submarine. Or maybe these are operational pseudonyms? .. Alex or Eustace ... But still these are trifles ...
The semi-order-semi-statement of the fact of the “captain” Demi “ the same Captain Evidence that is pacing over the Internet today ...
Certainly, it touches the scene of the wedding of a Soviet naval officer (in military uniform with orders on his jacket) and a simple Soviet girl in an Orthodox church in 1968 ... At least because it touches that a Soviet submariner visits the temple when could stay without epaulets. But that's why we decided that this is an Orthodox church? The priest in it seems to be almost Orthodox, but only in the church there are wooden benches - such as are usually installed in a Catholic church. And the priest with candles in the background suspiciously resembles a sort of Polish priest ...
No longer touches me, but frankly surprises the scene when married get thrown kissing in the temple so that any abbot at this moment should at least blush ... But it turned out Robinson's father, not one of those. Why should he blush at the sight of a passionately kiss in his own church, if he can afford to hold a wedding ceremony with the participation of a Soviet submarine officer ...
In one of the episodes of the film, a person, being on a Soviet warship, utters the phrase “yes, I swam”, talking about his past connected with submarines. There is nothing to say here, because in the Soviet and Russian fleets only that can hardly be directly related to ships ... Here, of course, it was not so much American cinematographers who tried our own translators, let's say, “master” dubbing .
There are other amazing moments in the movie "Phantom", we recall, "based on real events," as its creators say. One of these moments is that the military sailor, who is a member of the crew of a Soviet submarine, carrying nuclear missiles as weapons, says he has claustrophobia at the moment he needs to get into the missile shaft. But literally a few minutes before in the same film they said that this was an experienced sailor ... One can only guess how he managed to gain "experience" while serving on a submarine with a constant fear of closed space. Or he, following the vocabulary of the film, “sailed” on a submarine solely on the surface, standing at the wheelhouse and scared to dive ...
The apogee of the film "Phantom" is the thoughts of the "captain" Demi in an interview with the KGB officer Bruni that Americans will not respond to the nuclear provocation of the "Chinese", because the quote: "Americans put human life above all!" in the midst of the US-Vietnamese war, when US Army soldiers literally poured thousands of civilians with napalm on their heads, they ironed cities with carpet bombings, when about 60 thousand people did not return to the US, and more than 300 thousand became disabled. Put a person's life above all else? .. Yeah ...
Throughout the film, one can observe how the commander of a submarine during the long march “refills” with rum, just like the regular hero of Robert Louis Stevenson’s works, knowing that at that moment the KGB officers were on the submarine. In addition, Demi suffers from epilepsy, which, as explained in the tape, he hid from the authorities, giving bribes to the medical board ... Hard! The commander of the Soviet submarine with nuclear weapons on board constantly lays behind the collar, and even the old epileptic, as many people know, but the authorities are not aware of this very captain of the first rank Demi ...
In general, after such a film, its authors should apologize to the relatives of those Soviet sailors, for whom X-NUMX years ago, K-45 became an underwater sarcophagus, which, by the way, Americans tried to lift 129 from the ocean day during the super-expensive Azorian Project ( operation "Jennifer"). Raised in order to gain access to Soviet missiles and code books. But neither one nor the other of the United States could not get it, because during the ascent the boat literally broke in half, and only the nasal section in which the bodies of 1974 sailors were found was lifted. Their Americans “reburied” by staging a magnificent ceremony with the American and Soviet anthem and flag of the USSR Navy, apparently trying to present their interest in K-6 exclusively as a humanitarian mission. As they say, the focus of Americans on the show, even when the mission failed, is simply amazing ...
The American filmmakers decided to present this form to the world, releasing the Phantom movie about the death of the K-129 boat this year, directed by Todd Robinson. No, of course, we had previously guessed that Hollywood screenwriters, directors and producers, as they say, do not bother about compliance historical accuracy and documentary in their films, especially if the films are dedicated to Soviet (Russian) reality. But this time it was still an overkill. It would seem that “Phantom” is a feature film, and therefore (well, at least today it has become customary to think so), it may not pretend to be a historically verified description, and it’s not possible to criticize its creators for unnecessarily moving away from any realities need to. But the fact is that Todd Robinson himself decided to show the viewer that his film is the real version of the reasons for the tragedy that happened with the Soviet submarine in 1968. Robinson shows this, without delay, at the beginning of the film with promising captions: "the film is based on real events."
We recently discussed here a picture of Fyodor Bondarchuk “Stalingrad”, and there were quite a few readers who reproached the Russian director for deviating from the image of the Battle of Stalingrad itself, and trying to emphasize interpersonal relations. At the same time, many wrote that it would have been better to have called the film somehow differently, if they did not intend to show the battle in detail. But the fact of the matter is that Bondarchuk did not seem to announce his “Stalingrad” as a picture with a sustained historical line, as a work that seeks to show the Battle of Stalingrad, as they say, one to one.
Hollywood gentlemen such subtleties, as it turned out, do not care. Someone from "Dream Factory" somewhere heard about the tragedy that befell the Soviet submarine in 1968 year, and decided that this could make money by supplying the film with classic American cliches about the Land of Soviets, KGB agents and grotesque characters with the constant addition of melodramatic lines.
I do not want to create this picture of additional advertising, but it is also impossible to pass by it. Why? The fact is that such films (about the USSR and Russia) are watched not only in the USA. The grateful viewer, obviously, can be found among us (and representatives of the younger generation as well). And if there is such a viewer, then he may get the impression that the submariners are exactly as shown by the American director Robinson, and that the submarine performed exactly the mission that was put forward in Hollywood in the waters of the world ocean.
So, in brief, what the picture is about ... The picture is about how a Soviet naval officer, who in past misdeeds (ordered to lock up part of the crew in the burning compartment of the submarine), didn’t have at his disposal a new submarine and stayed on land until for several years he was sent to the same boat on which the tragedy occurred. Moreover, they were sent for the mission, about which he did not know, but the officers of the State Security Committee, who were mixed with the rest of the crew, knew very well. The plan of KGB agents (where, without them, in a typical American film about our country) was the following: in the agreed area, launch a nuclear missile strike against the American enemy, covering up the secret development of the Phantom special services, which would give a Soviet strike for the Chinese, and then the nuclear war would begin between the USA and the PRC ...
From all this nonsense, based, as filmmakers say, "on real events" we can single out only one episode that is connected with reality: K-129 in 1968, in fact, carried nuclear weapon (P-21 ballistic missiles, as well as nuclear-powered torpedoes). The rest of the real events, of course, far from the events presented by the writers.
Well, God be with him - with the "secret phantom apparatus" Phantom "and, God forgive me, with the nuclear war between the USA and China, which the KGB officers" wanted "to organize. In the film, there are already enough mistakes that will not only cut vision and hearing for submariners, but also to any person who is at least casually interested in military service in the Soviet (Russian) army and navy.
In the picture there are so many inconsistencies and frankly disregarding attitude of its authors to historical reality, that according to this indicator it can be easily nominated for the award “The Best Collection of 2013 Blunders”.
Sailors demonstrate a military salute, putting a hand, as they say, to an “empty” head. One could assume that without a headdress the young men-sailors, who came into the fleet yesterday or the day before yesterday, "fluttered" with their hands, but in the foreground are senior Soviet officers ...
Next - appeal "captain". Simply - the captain ... Well, well, that at least not "cap" or "my captain." That is, if we do not assume that the Soviet "captain" has the name of Demi, which is somewhat not characteristic of our "longitudes and latitudes", and has an age (judging by the actor Ed Harris who is not particularly grimaced), which would be enough for two captains .. Basically, the film also has a KGB agent performed by David Duchovny - a certain Bruni. With that last name, and in the KGB? .. But there is also Alex on the submarine. Or maybe these are operational pseudonyms? .. Alex or Eustace ... But still these are trifles ...
The semi-order-semi-statement of the fact of the “captain” Demi “ the same Captain Evidence that is pacing over the Internet today ...
Certainly, it touches the scene of the wedding of a Soviet naval officer (in military uniform with orders on his jacket) and a simple Soviet girl in an Orthodox church in 1968 ... At least because it touches that a Soviet submariner visits the temple when could stay without epaulets. But that's why we decided that this is an Orthodox church? The priest in it seems to be almost Orthodox, but only in the church there are wooden benches - such as are usually installed in a Catholic church. And the priest with candles in the background suspiciously resembles a sort of Polish priest ...
No longer touches me, but frankly surprises the scene when married get thrown kissing in the temple so that any abbot at this moment should at least blush ... But it turned out Robinson's father, not one of those. Why should he blush at the sight of a passionately kiss in his own church, if he can afford to hold a wedding ceremony with the participation of a Soviet submarine officer ...
In one of the episodes of the film, a person, being on a Soviet warship, utters the phrase “yes, I swam”, talking about his past connected with submarines. There is nothing to say here, because in the Soviet and Russian fleets only that can hardly be directly related to ships ... Here, of course, it was not so much American cinematographers who tried our own translators, let's say, “master” dubbing .
There are other amazing moments in the movie "Phantom", we recall, "based on real events," as its creators say. One of these moments is that the military sailor, who is a member of the crew of a Soviet submarine, carrying nuclear missiles as weapons, says he has claustrophobia at the moment he needs to get into the missile shaft. But literally a few minutes before in the same film they said that this was an experienced sailor ... One can only guess how he managed to gain "experience" while serving on a submarine with a constant fear of closed space. Or he, following the vocabulary of the film, “sailed” on a submarine solely on the surface, standing at the wheelhouse and scared to dive ...
The apogee of the film "Phantom" is the thoughts of the "captain" Demi in an interview with the KGB officer Bruni that Americans will not respond to the nuclear provocation of the "Chinese", because the quote: "Americans put human life above all!" in the midst of the US-Vietnamese war, when US Army soldiers literally poured thousands of civilians with napalm on their heads, they ironed cities with carpet bombings, when about 60 thousand people did not return to the US, and more than 300 thousand became disabled. Put a person's life above all else? .. Yeah ...
Throughout the film, one can observe how the commander of a submarine during the long march “refills” with rum, just like the regular hero of Robert Louis Stevenson’s works, knowing that at that moment the KGB officers were on the submarine. In addition, Demi suffers from epilepsy, which, as explained in the tape, he hid from the authorities, giving bribes to the medical board ... Hard! The commander of the Soviet submarine with nuclear weapons on board constantly lays behind the collar, and even the old epileptic, as many people know, but the authorities are not aware of this very captain of the first rank Demi ...
In general, after such a film, its authors should apologize to the relatives of those Soviet sailors, for whom X-NUMX years ago, K-45 became an underwater sarcophagus, which, by the way, Americans tried to lift 129 from the ocean day during the super-expensive Azorian Project ( operation "Jennifer"). Raised in order to gain access to Soviet missiles and code books. But neither one nor the other of the United States could not get it, because during the ascent the boat literally broke in half, and only the nasal section in which the bodies of 1974 sailors were found was lifted. Their Americans “reburied” by staging a magnificent ceremony with the American and Soviet anthem and flag of the USSR Navy, apparently trying to present their interest in K-6 exclusively as a humanitarian mission. As they say, the focus of Americans on the show, even when the mission failed, is simply amazing ...
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