The Water Diviner (2014)

Release date: 2014-12-26
Country: Australia|USA
Language: English|Turkish|Greek|Russian
Director: Russell Crowe
Production Co: Fear of God Films, Hopscotch Features, RatPac Entertainment
Genre: Drama, History, War
Rating: 7.0/10
Length: 1h 51min

Storyline

After the Battle of Gallipoli, in 1915, an Australian farmer, Connor (Russell Crowe), travels to Turkey to find his 3 missing sons. While staying at a hotel in Istanbul, he meets Ayshe (Olga Kurylenko), the hotel manager. And tries to find a way to Gallipoli.

Plot Keywords

world war one, based on true story, directorial debut, actor director, ottoman empire, australian, 1910s, shower, horse, reading aloud, hammer, digging, shovel, pick axe, dog, boots, eyeglasses, grave, priest, coffin

Short Review

Indeed, this is the 51-year-old Crowe's first time as a movie director, but he's hardly a novice actor stepping behind the camera for some sort of vanity project.