K-19: The Widowmaker

All compartments, report readiness.

Compartment one,

manned and ready.

Compartment two,

manned and ready.

Compartment four,

manned and ready.

Compartment five,

manned and ready.

Compartment six,

manned and ready.

Compartment seven,

manned and ready.

Compartment eight,

manned and ready.

Compartment nine,

manned and ready.

Compartment ten,

manned and ready.

Comrade Captain, the boat is ready

for live firing of the missile batteries.

Activate emergency procedure

for nuclear weapon release.

- The political department is ready.

- Excuse me.

Number one missile tube open.

Moscow's confirmed nuclear weapons

release authority.

Number one hatch open.

Silo free of water.

Powering consoles for missile launch.

Powering number one console.

Maintain course

and speed.

Course steady 2-9-0.

Maintaining speed six knots.

Hatch number one open.

Silo free of water.

Fuelling in progress.

Proceed with activating

the warhead on number one missile.

- Periscope going up!

- Demichev, back to the Conn.

Prepare number three tube

to the active estate.

- Repower control console to primary.

- Bypass valve shut.

- Console to position one primary.

- 60 seconds from range.

Prepare for emergency dive

after launch.

Number one missile fuelled.

Table elevated.

- Table elevated.

- Down scope.

Ready for firing sequence.

Launch number one missile.

Time to launch 15 seconds.

- 11, 10...

- Captain, we've been fired on!

Enemy torpedo at bearing 1-9-0.

- 7...

- Dive the submarine. Keep 50 meters.

Keep 50 meters.

- Both turbines full ahead together.

- Full ahead together.

...3, 2, 1. Captain!

- Force manual override!

- Launching sequence not responding.

- Estimate torpedo at 6,000 meters.

- The drill is over.

Well, Commander Polenin.

Do you have an explanation for this?

Comrade Admiral, it's another

burn out in the ignition sequence.

Comrade Captain, I will require

the names of those responsible...

I don't know. Why would I know

the name of the jackass

that supplied a 30 kopeck insulator

to do a 50 kopeck job?

I have to fight that

before I can fight a war.

Admiral, the boat will be at sea.

On schedule! Before the month is out.

I'll give you a name. My name.

Polenin, Mikhail! Captain, K-19.

Write it down!

After you've successfully

completed trials

on the mechanical, propulsion and

navigation systems in the Barents sea,

you'll proceed beneath the ice

to the launch area here,

and test-fire the missile.

My orders were to prepare K-19 for

sea trials. They'll begin on schedule.

Until they're complete, to undertake

an exercise of this scope...

may be, with respect,

premature.

There is no doubt in my mind

that K-19 is ready

to fulfill her mission.

Operation Arctic Circle

is no mere exercise.

What is to stop the Americans

destroying Moscow and Leningrad?

Only one thing...

...a certain knowledge

of destruction in return.

K-19 is that knowledge.

But not until Kennedy is told

by his spy planes that we have it.

And it works.

I promised Comrade Krushchev

that the American President will get

the message before the month ends.

Comrade,

perhaps Captain Polenin might...

Captain Polenin

put his boat and men before the Party.

He will be under your command.

That's all there is to it.

We need to reconnect

to shore supply.

Reconnect to the shore supply.

The Captain on the CCP.

- Please.

- Captain.

- What's your name, please?

- Demichev. Torpedo officer, Captain.

May I ask the Captain's name

and purpose aboard our boat?

My name is Vostrikov.

Where's Captain Polenin?

Come in.

Yes.

- Morning, Captain.

- Comrade Captain Vostrikov.

That'll be all, Yuri.

Come in, please.

Captain.

With the short lead-in time

to sea trials,

headquarters wanted

your expertise on board.

And I'm pleased to have it.

I know this could be difficult for...

It's never difficult

to do one's duty, Captain.

I was preparing my briefing

on the crew and on the boat.

I see.

The problem is fitting her out.

My orders said

you'd be arriving tomorrow.

Well, the briefing can wait.

Show me the boat.

Yes, of course.

We're finally getting

the turbines up to speed.

With luck, in another week

we might be able to run a test.

The equipment has not yet arrived,

Comrade Captain.

Noted, Comrade Captain.

The reactor compartment.

How hot are you running it?

We're at 50 per cent

for the turbine test.

What is the absorption rate

of the rods?

Three per cent above normal.

Where is the reactor officer?

Lieutenant Yashin?

- He's drunk. Do you tolerate this?

- Of course not.

Prepare charges against this man.

Inform command

we need an immediate replacement.

Yes, Captain.

Lieutenant Yashin is the best

reactor officer in the navy.

He's never been drunk on duty before.

We need him, Captain.

I urge you to reconsider.

I want this boat out of dry dock.

Sea trials begin in two weeks.

The boat isn't ready, Captain.

The problem is Moscow.

They have tours and we have

incompetent crews and broken parts.

Sea trials will begin on schedule.

We deliver or we'll drown.

In the history of the Soviet Navy,

no sailors have been given

such a boat as K-19.

It is the finest submarine in the world.

You have been given the honor

to be her crew.

I have been given the honor

to be your captain.

Without me, you are nothing.

Without you,

I am nothing.

Much is expected of us.

We will not fail.

We're cursed.

Easy, easy! Keep it level!

Steady!

Now, down, down.

Coming through. Permission to pass.

- What do you have?

- A new scope for the sonar station.

- Carry on. Install it.

- I work on the reactor, Captain.

Where is the sonar officer?

He's on a 24-hour pass.

Captain, I initiated the relief rotation.

- It's good for efficiency.

- No passes. All leaves are cancelled.

We need everyone

to do their jobs.

Yes, Captain.

Comrade Captain.

Lieutenant Vadim Radtchenko.

Reporting for duty.

I'm your new reactor officer.

- What was your last posting?

- Nuclear training academy.

He's never operated a reactor at sea.

I was first in my class.

- Report to the reactor control room.

- Yes, sir.

- That way.

- Thank you.

Captain...

He's qualified. Or command

wouldn't have sent him to us.

Officer on deck.

Pavel Loktev. Senior technician.

Stepan Komarov,

Anatoly Subachev, Grigori Dyomin,

Oleg Argunov.

- Show me to the control room.

- Anatoly.

We haven't got all day!

Move it!

Take it! Hurry up! Go, go!

Put it there.

Easy!

Watch out!

I have to stop the truck.

They gave me the wrong drugs!

- That goes over here!

- Stop the truck!

Hey! Hey! Stop, stop!

Wrong drugs!

You gave me the wrong drugs!

You idiot! Stop!

Help me! Help me!

- Doctor!

- It's the Doctor!

He's dead.

Stay till the ambulance comes.

The rest of you, back to work.

Back to work!

Oh, Gavril.

Captain.

Since the solid ballast was loaded

we've had a half-degree list to port.

I've tried everything.

She won't even up.

Half-degree we can handle.

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