Kolchak's courage and faith are driven home repeatedly in "Admiral," from his steely command against the Germans in a World War I naval battle -- to his rejection of a blindfold before being shot by a ...

Touted by its own marketing as Russia’s most expensive production ever (budget is alleged to have been around $20 million), war-film-cum-love-story “The Admiral” reps a staunchly old-fashioned epic, ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's latest blockbuster film hopes to woo big foreign audiences with an epic tale of doomed love set amid the chaos of the Russian Civil War; its politics conveniently chime ...

To the Communists, he was an archvillain: a defender of the oppressors, a class enemy. And for decades, that’s the way films and textbooks portrayed Adm. Alexander Kolchak, a leader of the fight to ...

MOSCOW — To the communists, he was an arch-villain: a defender of the oppressors, a class enemy. And for decades, that's the way films and textbooks portrayed Adm. Alexander Kolchak, a leader of the ...

November 1918. Following the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia is engulfed in a gigantic civil war. Lenin and the Reds hope to forge a new Soviet empire. His enemies, the Whites, look to their new leader ...

Touted by its own marketing as Russia’s most expensive production ever (budget is alleged to have been around $20 million), war-film-cum-love-story “The Admiral” reps a staunchly old-fashioned epic, ...