Kraken

Kraken (2025)

Кракен

A Russian missile submarine disappears without trace during a secret mission in the Greenland Sea. A vessel is deployed to search for it, captained by the brother of the missing submarine’s commander. The search crew is tasked with locating the submarine and preventing a top-secret weapon from falling into enemy hands. Meanwhile, a geological research operation at the North Pole awakens the Kraken, a giant deep-water monster with an incredible ability to camouflage and an uncanny intelligence. As the search party narrows in on the missing submarine, they will encounter the legendary creature of the deep.

Date of release
2025-04-17
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (173)
Runtime
2h 14m
Genres
Science Fiction, Drama, Action
Director
Nikolay Lebedev

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: RUB 1.1B
  • Filmed in: Murmansk and Saint Petersburg

Kraken is a 2025 Russian monster film directed by Nikolai Lebedev, who co-wrote the screenplay with Aleksey Sidorov. The film stars Alexander Petrov, Viktor Dobronravov, Aleksei Guskov, Diana Pozharskaya, Anton Rival, Sergei Garmash, and others.

Production

The film has been in development since 2021. Central Partnership Film Studio was in charge of production. Nikita Mikhalkov's TriTe Studio also participated, with support from the Russia-1 television channel and the Cinema Fund.

The film's location shoots took place in the autumn of 2023 in the towns of Severomorsk and Zaozyorsk, Murmansk Oblast, and then continued in Tula and Moscow.

The film was shot in the Murmansk Oblast, among ice floes in temperatures down to -25 degrees Celsius.

The actors had to warm themselves up with hot tea and use portable heaters. The film's creators used the interiors of the Severodvinsk ship, which was docked in the town of Severomorsk, Murmansk Oblast, as the Zapolyarye boat. All the actors had to undergo training on evacuating through the hatches of a real submarine. Thirty sailors from the Northern Fleet were recruited as extras. They were also responsible for instructing the film crew.

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