Archangel - Robert Harris - Cargo (2024)

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Archangel tells the story of four days in the life of Fluke Kelso, a dissipated, middle-aged former Oxford historian, who is in Moscow to attend a conference on the newly opened Soviet archives.

Very Loosely Based on a True Story: The Western Allies actually did make incursions around the periphery of Russia in 1918-1919, including capturing the port of Archangel , in an effort to reconstitute an Eastern Front of World War I and, later, help the White Russians.

The film fictionalizes, in a general sense, historical conflict related to the Bolshevik Revolution occurring in the Arkhangelsk (Archangel) region of Russia, a basic concept presented to Maddin by John Harvie.

A man (Daniel Craig) and the daughter (Yekaterina Rednikova) of a slain former agent investigate a mystery concerning dictator Josef Stalin.

Archangel / Film synopsis

Saint Michael is a warrior who helped protect the Israelites. Saint Michael was sent to many of the patriarchs, including Moses, Jacob, and Abraham in the Old Testament. He is the archangel who spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai. Michael later appears in the Book of Revelation, the last book of the Bible.

Arkhangelsk (UK: /ˌɑːrkæŋˈɡɛlsk, ɑːrˈkæŋɡɛlsk/, US: /ɑːrˈkɑːnɡɛlsk/; Russian: Арха́нгельск, IPA: [ɐrˈxanɡʲɪlʲsk]), occasionally referred to in English as Archangel and Archangelsk, is a city and the administrative center of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.

A positively gripping work which never lets up the tension and the intrigue, with great performances and touches of wry humour. And a sensational subject.

Having decided that his subject would be a fugitive hunt, Harris thought “it would be interesting to create the character of the chief manhunter.” While most characters in Act of Oblivion are based on historical figures, Richard Nayler is fictional and styled by the author as the secretary of the regicide committee of ...

A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artefacts – coins, fragments of glass, human bones – which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to his death?

Who is the author called Harris? ›

Robert Harris is the author of Pompeii, Enigma, and Fatherland. He has been a television correspondent with the BBC and a newspaper columnist for the London Sunday Times and The Daily Telegraph. His novels have sold more than ten million copies and been translated into thirty languages. He...

'The Angel' by William Blake presents a dream in which a speaker as a “maiden Queen” was guarded by an angel. He left the speaker in distress and reappeared when she grew old. Blake's poem describes a dream that the speaker dreamt. In the dream, she was a maiden Queen and her guardian angel protected her all day long.

The film The Angel, Netflix's latest thriller about a real-life Egyptian man who spied for Israel in the 1970s, revisits a turbulent time in Middle Eastern history. In 1973, Egyptian and Syrian forces launched an attack on Israel on the holy day of Yom Kippur, setting off what would turn into a weeks-long war.

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