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K-19: The Widowmaker

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K-19: The Widowmaker	comment	K-19: The Widowmaker is a fact-based fictional movie released on July 19, 2002, about the first of many disasters that befell the Soviet submarine of the same name. It was directed by Kathryn Bigelow, of Point Break (1991) and The Hurt Locker fame.In 1959, the Soviet Union launches its first nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine, the K-19 â€“ nicknamed "The Widowmaker" due to many deaths that occurred during manufacturing. The ship is led by Captain Alexei Vostrikov (Harrison Ford), aided by executive officer Mikhail Polenin (Liam Neeson). One day, the ship's reactor cooling system starts to fail, leading the sailors to work together in order to both save the crew's lives as well as prevent a nuclear accident that could trigger World War III.Submarine K-77, a diesel-powered missile submarine that somehow got bought by a Finnish entrepreneur, was used as the main set for this movie and later served as a museum in Providence, RI until it sank in a storm in 2007. It was scrapped in 2009.The K-19 itself served in the Soviet and then Russian Navy until 2002. In 2003, the boat was scrapped with the exception of the sail to be used as a memorial for the fallen sailors.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_11a7da4	type	Superweapon Suspense Subversion
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_11a7da4	comment	Superweapon Suspense Subversion: The film opens with the crew of the titular submarine preparing to launch a nuclear missile while simultaneously under attack from an enemy sub. However, a short circuit in a control panel prompts the captain to snap, "The drill is over!" and it is revealed that the K-19 is still at dockside, running a training exercise in front of high ranking officers.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Radtchenko's Heroic Sacrifice is eerily similar to Spock's.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_159ce749	type	Ensign Newbie
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_159ce749	comment	Ensign Newbie: Lt. Radtchenko, who is at his first naval posting out of the academy. And it shows.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_18151657	type	Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_18151657	comment	Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony: It does not bode well when the bottle fails to break. A sailor even remarks they're cursed. In Nautical Folklore, it is indeed a bad omen. (It's also usually considered bad luck to have two captains on one ship.)
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Polyenin notes that the crew is beginning to call the ship "the Widowmaker" when Vostrikov asks for a status report, and Radtchenko said that if they fail to fix the coolant leak, it would be Hiroshima all over again, a nod to the actual nickname the K-19 got in real life.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: Both Captains, but Polenin moreso than Vostrikov, even if the dynamics between both captains actually make Polenin feel more like the Team Mom of the crew.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_1ba750d8	type	The Gulag
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_1ba750d8	comment	The Gulag: Vostrikov's father was a Hero of the Soviet Revolution who died a prisoner in a Gulag for unspecified reasons.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_1d3c92da	type	Failsafe Failure
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_1d3c92da	comment	Failsafe Failure: A single leak in the reactor cooling system is enough to cause a near meltdown. Radtchenko mentions the backup systems were never installed (see No OSHA Compliance below.)
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Every single person on the reactor-repair crew. The film shows, in excruciating detail, the toll the radiation took on their bodies.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: While unloading a torpedo, a sailor's hand gets mangled when it's caught in the chain pulley.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: More like Corrupt Politburo Party Members. The vast majority of the K-19's problems can be traced to shoddy construction, including the use of substandard parts on critical systems as cost-cutting measures, and yet the Party still wanted to have it launch on deadline and not fail. Not to mention that Party Members believe the crew can deal with the radiation contamination just by barking even more orders and eating fresh fruit. The final insult comes when the men who died from radiation poisoning were nominated by Vostrikov for the Hero of the Soviet Union, but were denied on the basis of it not being wartime, and their deaths being the result of an accident.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_1fdaf8ff	type	Ominous Latin Chanting
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_1fdaf8ff	comment	Ominous Latin Chanting: The song Reactor, played whenever the crew has to go into the reactor and fix the cooling system. Although there's plenty of ominous chanting, however, it's not strictly done in Latin. As the music is taken from Richard Einhorn's "Voices of Light", a modern accompaniment to the silent film "The Passion of Joan of Arc", the selections that play during the repair scene are sung in French.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: At the beginning of the film, when a drill supervised by party members, Polenin gives his own name when asked who is the person resposible for such failure. When the reactor fails and Vostrikov demands who is responsible for the reactor failure, Polenin gives Vostrikov's own name and the new reactor officer he brought into the sub as the ones responsible. A second instance occurs with the two missile launch sequences - the first a simulated launch of a live missile, the second an actual launch of a missile with an inert warhead. Both are tense moments for the crew, though for different reasons.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_23be181a	type	Patriotic Fervor
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_23be181a	comment	Patriotic Fervor: What drives some of the people that willingly went into the reactor.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_31254f02	type	Two-Keyed Lock
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_31254f02	comment	Two-Keyed Lock: Launching one of the K-19's missiles requires keys held by three different officers, as well as automated confirmation of missile launch authority from Moscow â€“ technically requiring a fourth key, as the disk needed for the authorization procedure is locked in a safe.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_3318a1cb	type	Distant Finale
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_3318a1cb	comment	Distant Finale: There's an epilogue that takes place 28 years after the main body of the film, that shows the surviving crew members reuniting to finally give the seven heroes a proper tribute.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: See Lzherusskie above.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_3b79029a	type	Crapsaccharine World
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_3b79029a	comment	Crapsaccharine World: How the political officer's propaganda film portrays life in America, contrasting happy civilians with images of the KKK.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_43b154c9	type	Not Even Bothering with the Accent
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_43b154c9	comment	Not Even Bothering with the Accent: To the amusement of some, Harrison Ford seems to alternate between this and bursts of Lzherusskie. It's more egregious with Liam Neeson, however. One reviewer remarked that they were the most American and Irish Russians ever, though at one point, Harrison Ford himself starts to sound more Irish than Russian, which he probably picked up from hanging out with Liam Neeson too much. Quite a few of the other sailors (those who weren't Russian-born) have wobbly accents, too. Joss Ackland, who played Defense Minister Marshal Zolentsov, does not even bother trying to sound "Russian" and sounds every bit as English as he is.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Due to the politics of the Soviet Union, the men that sacrificed their lives so that the rest of the crew could survive got little to no merit; several more crewmembers would have health complications for the rest of the lives, some even succumbing to cancer; and everyone got slapped with basically a gag-order that prevented them from talking about the events of the K-19 disaster.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_532761b1	type	Danger Room Cold Open
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_532761b1	comment	Danger Room Cold Open: The film opens with the crew preparing to launch the sub's nuclear missiles. Seconds before launch, a console shorts out, Polenin angrily announces, "The drill is over!" and the K-19 is revealed to still be in port.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_56264acd	type	The So-Called Coward
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_56264acd	comment	The So-Called Coward: Lt. Radtchenko, who suffered a total nervous breakdown and did not assist in the first effort to repair the cooling system for the reactor, does the reparations all by himself when the first efforts failed later in the voyage, spending more time inside the reactor than any other men.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: K-19 wasn't the USSR's first nuclear sub — that distinction went to K-3, which was an attack sub, and while similarly "reliable" wasn't that prone to serious accidents. K-19 was the first nuclear missile sub. During the accident, there never was any attempted mutiny as depicted in the film. However, the Captain was so concerned there might be one that he ordered all the small arms on the ship thrown overboard, except for a few pistols which he kept for himself and his most trusted men. The nickname "The Widowmaker" is completely made up. K19 never did have that title, though so many sailors and workers died during its construction that such a nickname would certainly be appropriate. In Real Life, it was eventually nicknamed "Hiroshima" after the nuclear accident.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_5f014f7a	type	Sub Story
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_5f014f7a	comment	Sub Story: Barring the prologue, epilogue, and a couple of brief scenes in the Kremlin, the entire film takes place aboard the titular submarine.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The Widowmaker.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_6383a034	type	The Mutiny
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_6383a034	comment	The Mutiny: Technically Barratry; the political officer attempts to countermand Vostrikov and give command to Polenin so they can abandon ship. He refuses and has them locked up.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: The second half of the movie is pretty much a series of these. Subverted at the end, when Vostrikov intends to go down with the ship to stop it falling into the Americans' hands; Polenin tells him that won't be necessary, as they've just been found by another Russian sub.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_6454966e	type	World War III
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_6454966e	comment	World War III: Vostrikov tells the crew that because an American destroyer is trailing them too closely, and very close to a NATO base, he fears that if the sub goes critical and the destroyer gets caught up in it, then America/NATO might misunderstand and nuke Russia in retaliation. That would have been a very real fear for 1960s Americans and Soviets. The Aegis defense system, and Ticonderoga-class cruiser, were specifically created so that that the US Navy wouldn't have to fear a Soviet airstrike.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Vostrikov pushing people to the edge early in the film, while stressing his crew badly, eventually proves useful as it allows them to operate better once the reactor fails.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_7b71edf4	type	Going Critical
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_7b71edf4	comment	Going Critical: The second half of the film consists of the crew trying to prevent K-19's reactor from going critical, which would kill everyone there, probably destroy the sub, and possibly destroy the nearby American destroyer as well.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_8560c16f	type	Fatal Family Photo
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_8560c16f	comment	Fatal Family Photo: One of the crew members has a photo of his fiancÃ©e that he shows off to a fellow crew member at one point. Naturally, he's one of the seven who has to go into the reactor and is fatally irradiated.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: When the reactor repair fails and it starts to heat up again, one of the crew members jumps overboard and starts to swim toward the nearby American destroyer. We don't see whether he makes it.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_8bb55271	comment	Hazmat Suit: Unfortunately, the Quartermaster's office screwed up and gave them suits rated for chemical hazards instead of radiation hazards. Not that it would make much difference. No hazmat suit short of solid lead Powered Armor could really protect from the radiation of the live nuclear reactor, and even that not all that well. Modern radiation hazmat suits mainly protect the wearer from radioactive material contamination, being just a slightly beefed-up chemical suit.note While alpha and beta radiation is pretty easy to stop, gamma is almost impossible to. It takes several inches of lead to even partly block it, and lead is heavy. Completely stopping the gamma output of an active nuclear reactor requires several feet of extremely dense material, preferably a mix of layers of different materials, which would be completely impractical for even Powered Armor. Also, it's not a good idea to stop high levels of beta radiation with lead, as this creates nasty amounts of secondary x-rays. The main focus of "radiation suits" is to prevent the wearer from being contaminated by dust containing radioactive materials (which can be inhaled or ingested).
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_94e4b975	type	Vomit Indiscretion Shot
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_94e4b975	comment	Vomit Indiscretion Shot: When the repair crew leaves the reactor room, their first action is to puke. Vomiting is, by the way, one of the first symptoms of fatal radiation poisoning.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_9aeb1d20	comment	This Is Not a Drill: Said verbatim when the crew is preparing to launch the test missile.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_9c73b5b2	type	Let Them Die Happy
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_9c73b5b2	comment	Let Them Die Happy: The poor soldiers who sacrificed themselves to prevent K-19 from going critical are not told that they are dying, and are given aspirin as a placebo to disguise the fact that the sub's doctor can't actually do anything for them.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The reactor officer constantly tapping on the pressure gauges.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: When the reactor cooling system fails, chief technician Pavel Loktev admits to Lieutenant Radtchenko that he noticed something was wrong before K-19 left the base, but underestimated the severity of the problem. This, especially after the silent treatment he receives, makes Pavel's thinking clear.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_a3cdf764	type	Drinking on Duty
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_a3cdf764	comment	Drinking on Duty: Pretty much the first thing Vostrikov does upon assuming command is dismiss the chief engineer for being drunk on duty. Unfortunately, the only replacement the Navy can find in time for K-19's maiden voyage is Ensign Newbie Radtchenko.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_a8559a9f	comment	The nickname "The Widowmaker" is completely made up. K19 never did have that title, though so many sailors and workers died during its construction that such a nickname would certainly be appropriate. In Real Life, it was eventually nicknamed "Hiroshima" after the nuclear accident.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_a90fff3	type	Based on a True Story
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_a90fff3	comment	Based on a True Story: Some feel it's more of a Very Loosely Based on a True Story. Including the crewmen from the original accident. However, they did like the film overall, especially Harrison Ford's performance.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Polenin's reaction when he's told the sub was supplied with chemical suits, rather than radiation suits; as he puts it, "They might as well wear raincoats!" Not that actual radiation suits would have done them much good, though.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_b0855ef3	type	No Historical Figures Were Harmed
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_b0855ef3	comment	No Historical Figures Were Harmed: The crewmembers of the K-19 are fictional characters (with fictional names) based on the real persons. For instance, Alexei Vostrikov and Mikhail Polenin were named Nikolai Zateyev and Vasily Arkhipov.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_b0cab0b1	type	ShowingOffThePerilousPowerSource
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_b0cab0b1	comment	Showing Off the Perilous Power Source: Several shots of the reactor, and an ominous overpressure developing in one of its coolant loops, before it lets go.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: One of the crew members opts to jump in the icy North Atlantic waters and make a futile attempt to swim to the American Destroyer rather than go back in the sub. Sadly this also almost certainly resulted in a horrific death as wellâ€¦
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_b47d95be	type	No OSHA Compliance
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_b47d95be	comment	No OSHA Compliance: The rushed and frequently shoddy construction of the K-19 is both a recurring theme and the root cause of the reactor accident; either higher quality welding in the cooling system or installation of the backup systems as designed would likely have prevented the disaster. Much is made of the crew being supplied with chemical exposure suits rather than radiation suits. Ultimately subverted, as even the proper equipment would have made little difference to crewmen working next to an out of control reactor.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_be991863	comment	The Neidermeyer: Vostrikov is portrayed like this at the beginning of the film; he gets better as the film progresses. He eventually comes to the realization that his duty to his men is more important than the duty to the Soviet Union when the party members make it clear they care more about looks/public opinion than the lives of the men under his command.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_c4286511	type	For Doom the Bell Tolls
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_c4286511	comment	For Doom the Bell Tolls: The song "Reactor" from the soundtrack, which plays during the reactor repairs, opens with this, emphasizing what is going to happen to the crewmembers going into the reactor.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_c446f93c	type	Artistic License â€“ Nuclear Physics
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_c446f93c	comment	Artistic License â€“ Nuclear Physics: Nuclear reactors, by their very nature, do not produce a nuclear explosion when they melt down. Similarly, it is not possible to "cook" a nuclear warhead, only the explosive lenses. Partially averted because although Radtchenko admits that he has no idea what would actually happen, he can only speculate. At the time, the number of Soviet ships with nuclear reactors could be counted on the fingers of one hand. The K-19 was the second Soviet ship powered by a nuclear reactor. Radtchenko himself admits that no one knew at the time what would happen when the reactor reached 1,000 degrees, because it was an event that had never happened before. Although the theory that once it reached that level of heat it would cause an explosion that, if it involved the warheads, would go nuclear, is wrong, it is not wrong that there were fears at the time that this outcome would occur. However, a nuclear reactor at 1,000 degrees coming in contact with cold water all of a sudden would form a very impressive dirty bomb and certainly wouldn't do the sub crew any good. Larry Bond's book Crash Dive recounts a very similar situation aboard the Soviet sub K-219. And by "very impressive," we mean you'd be hard pressed to find a piece of the sub larger than your hand. Along with probably anything else within a few thousand feet of it. The closest thing to a nuclear reactor suddenly exploding with no warning ever caught on film was HMS Barham blowing herself to bits while sinking in 1941. The newsreels say it was an aft magazine explosion. Actually averted with that violet-blue color in the reactor room. That color? It's Cherenkov radiation. It takes thousands of rads to generate a glow that bright, in a completely unshielded compartment. As said below, solid lead Powered Armor wouldn't have protected the crew in that oven, a seething cauldron of high-energy gamma radiation. Hell on Earth. It was little wonder some broke down crying when contemplating going into there — no amount of bullshit could convince them they weren't on suicide missions. They were right. Also averted with the way the contamination spreads through the ship's compartments. Exposed to such intensely radioactive steam in completely unsuitable chemical hazmat suits, the irradiated crewmembers would contaminate everything they touched or anything that touched them. Combined with radioactive steam leakage, the entire ship quickly would become hot, and that's exactly what happens.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_c6079371	type	Artistic License – Awards
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_c6079371	comment	Artistic License â€“ Awards: In the epilogue, Vostrikov says that he nominated the men for Hero of the Soviet Union, but it was denied by the Central Committee because it was not wartime and merely an accident. In reality, the award of Hero of the Soviet Union was not a wartime decoration. It was awarded to Soviet and foreign citizens for "heroic feats in service to the Soviet state and society." In fact, multiple individuals who were involved in the cleanup of Chernobyl were awarded it.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_c8a8c595	type	Retirony
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_c8a8c595	comment	Retirony: The first repair crew had only an hour left in their shift when the accident happened.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_d99d9918	type	The Captain
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_d99d9918	comment	The Captain: Two, actually. Polenin, who still has the Captain rank, was downranked to XO for the duration of the exercise, after upsetting Party members. Vostrikov takes his place as the Captain. The rest of the officers do not like this, as they feel Vostrikov only got command because he married a party member's daughter. That's somewhat more complex. Soviet/Russian rank system doesn't maintain a rigid correspondence between the rank and position, so, say a division (nominally a major general billet) can be and often is commanded by a colonel. So Polenin was demoted (from CO to XO), but not downranked, as he kept his Captain rank.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: A sailor jumps off the submarine when the alarm sounds off again after one of the rigged coolant pipes fails.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: The film plays fast and loose with the facts, abandoning them whenever it allows to play up the Rule of Drama. Just to name a few, it conflates the first and the second accidents with the titular sub while completely forgetting the third, changes its nickname, and adds a lot of Cold War clichÃ©s like the crew mooning Americans.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_e652089c	type	Artistic License â€“ Ships
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_e652089c	comment	Artistic License â€“ Ships: The crew used a diesel sub for filming, and it shows. Nuclear subs are much roomier, though the cramped interiors of a diesel boat just make a better stage for the drama. A Soviet Project 651 submarine, like K-77 (the one used by the filmmakers), actually had a one-foot-wider beam than K-19 (the titular boat). They were also much quieter than early Soviet nuclear-powered submarines, had enormous batteries, and could stay submerged for about a month before surfacing up to 800 nautical miles away.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_f237981e	type	The Alleged Car
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_f237981e	comment	K-19 wasn't the USSR's first nuclear sub — that distinction went to K-3, which was an attack sub, and while similarly "reliable" wasn't that prone to serious accidents. K-19 was the first nuclear missile sub.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_f2b365c1	type	Libation for the Dead
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_f2b365c1	comment	Libation for the Dead: Mixed with To Absent Friends: At the reunion in 1989, Polenin pours a glass of the vodka the others were toasting with on the memorial for the men who died from radiation poisoning from working on the reactor. There's also a glass of vodka and a piece of bread visibly set out on the memorial.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_f8ec3418	type	Someone Has to Die
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_f8ec3418	comment	Someone Has to Die: Fixing the reactor means enduring massive doses of gamma radiation, with lethal, nightmare-inducing results.
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K-19: The Widowmaker / int_fa2f60f1	comment	Vehicle Title: The aforementioned K-19.
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