The Detached Mission
The Detached Mission | |
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NYT: "El "Rambo" Sovietico Arrasa… America Tiembla…" | |
Directed by | Mikhail Tumanishvili |
Written by | Yevgeni Mesyatsev |
Starring | Mikhail Nozhkin Aleksandr Fatyushin Sergei Nasibov Nartai Begalin |
Cinematography | Boris Bondarenko |
Edited by | Svetlana Lyashinskaya |
Music by | Viktor Babushkin |
Distributed by | Mosfilm |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
The Detached Mission sometimes translated as Solo Voyage or Solo Journey (
Plot
During the Cold War, a television news journalist aboard the American aircraft carrier USS Nimitz explains the scenario of current fleet exercise of the United States Navy in the central Pacific Ocean. During a live broadcast from the bridge of the Nimitz, the correspondent points out a fleet of "Russian" (Soviet) warships on the horizon commanded by Vice Admiral Chernov.
At the same time, a
While the American and Soviet ships track each other, a Soviet frigate with a detachment of
After arriving at an American military base, Hessalt receives a secret order to launch a missile with a conventional warhead at a passenger cruise ship. A group of CIA and military officers goes golfing together with influential American
After Hessalt finds out that he and his men are actually expendable and most likely to be assassinated immediately after the completion of their mission, he goes ballistic and takes full control of the base, arming a
Meanwhile, an American hipster-lookalike couple, a local airline pilot and his wife, spend their honeymoon on the island near the missile base. Hessalt orders his men to eliminate the witnesses. The woman is killed, but the man managed to escape, shortly thereafter teaming up with the Soviets to punish the villains.
After the Soviet Chief of Naval Staff finds out that Hessalt is acting on his own, he orders Major Shatokhin and his detachment to proceed upon a search and destroy mission to find and neutralize the missile launch site. The Soviets face the difficult task to prevent possible World War III.
Significance
The Detached Mission was filmed and released shortly after the second
...they didn't let us film, Gorbachev was already in power, which means chaos had started. A movie on a military theme, and we couldn't get arms, they say, "Here's a Makarov pistol, that's it." They wouldn't give us anything in order to avoid offending the overseas "friends": we are all for peace and so on.[1]
References
- ^ a b Галина Седых (November 2006). "МИХАИЛ НОЖКИН: "ДА ВОСКРЕСНЕТ РОДИНА МОЯ!"". Газета "Прогноз развития".