Documentary Description
This remarkable documentary for
the first time gave us the true story behind the 1990 Hollywood movie
The Hunt for Red October a film version of a 1984 novel by Tom
Clancy. Clancy's story of Marko Ramius, a defecting submarine captain
who takes his ship on an epic voyage across the Atlantic, was
inspired by real events.
The author took as his starting point a mutiny led by Valery
Sablin on the Soviet warship the Sentry (Storozhevoy,
in Russian) in November 1975. As he explains in his book, 'There is a
precedent for this, sir. On November 8, 1975, the Storozhevoy,
a Soviet Krivak-class missile frigate, attempted to run from Riga,
Latvia, to the Swedish island of Gotland. The political officer
aboard, Valery Sablin, led a mutiny of the enlisted personnel. Sablin
and 26 others were court-martialled and shot.' However, the real
story of the Red October was hidden at the time by the Soviet
government and only now have been revealed.
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