While he’ll be seen later this year in Fathers and Daughters and also recently wrapped The Nice Guys, it wasn’t long ago that Russell Crowe embarked on directing his first narrative feature, The Water Diviner. The historical drama tells the story of an Australian farmer (Crowe), who journeys to Turkey in order to find his three missing sons, following the Battle of Gallipoli in World War I.
Shot by Andrew Lesnie (whose worked with Peter Jackson on all of his LOTR and Hobbit films), the first U.S. trailer has now landed today which shows off some impressive scope, having already been a hit in his native country. Set for a U.S. release at the end of April, check out the trailer and poster below for the film also starring Olga Kurylenko, Yilmaz Erdogan, Cem Yilmaz, Jai Courtney, Ryan Corr and Jacqueline McKenzie.
Russell Crowe’s directorial debut, “The Water Diviner,” is an epic and inspiring tale of one man’s life-changing journey of discovery. Crowe plays Australian farmer Joshua Connor, who, in 1919, goes in search of his three missing sons, last known to have fought against the Turks in the bloody Battle of Gallipoli. Arriving in Istanbul, he is thrust into a vastly different world, where he encounters others who suffered their own losses in the conflict: Ayshe (Olga Kurylenko), a strikingly beautiful but guarded hotelier raising a child alone; her young, spirited son, Orhan (Dylan Georgiades), who finds a friend in Connor; and Major Hasan (Yilmaz Erdoğan), a Turkish officer who fought against Connor’s boys and may be this father’s only hope. With seemingly insurmountable obstacles in his path, Connor must travel across the battle-scarred Turkish landscape to find the truth… and his own peace.
The Water Diviner opens on April 24th.