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Cast

Russell Crowe
as Connor

Isabel Lucas
as Natalia

Jai Courtney
as Lt. Colonel Hughes

Olga Kurylenko
as Ayshe

Ryan Corr
as Art

Yilmaz Erdogan
as Major Hasan

Jacqueline McKenzie
as Eliza

Steve Bastoni
as Omer

Salih Kalyon
as Dr. Ibrahim

Dylan Georgiades
as Orhan

Megan Gale
as Fatma

James Fraser
as Edward

Ben O'Toole
as Henry

Jackie Patterson
as Young Art

Ben Norris
as Young Henry

Aidan Smith
as Young Edward

Damon Herriman
as Father McIntyre

Sophia Forrest
as Edith

Dan Wylie
as Captain Brindley

Christopher Sommers
as Tucker

Benedict Hardie
as Dawson

Michael Dorman
as Greeves

Max Benitz
as Lieutenant

Charles Allan
as British Soldier (Arrival Hall)

Ali Akdeniz
as Turkish Official (Arrival Hall)

Robert Mammone
as Colonel Demergelis

Deniz Akdeniz
as Iman 1919

Emrah Aksu
as Boy Soldier

Thomas Unger
as Thomas

Jack Randall
as British Clerk

Zev Eleftheriou
as Train Driver

Bill Thompson
as William

David Oliver
as British Soldier (Topkapi)

Asena Gündüz
as Omer's Daugher #1

Aleyna Gündüz
as Omer's Daughter #2

Abdullah Eraslan
as Distinguished Turkish Man

Reverend Diogenis Patsouris
as Orthodox Priest

Mustafa Özlük
as Turkish Band - Sunnet

Serdar Ali Sagin
as Turkish Band - Sunnet

Ediz Nidai
as Turkish Band - Sunnet

Jason Honeychurch
as Young Veteran

George Ogilvie
as Blade Knife Sharpener

Stewart Kirwan
as Turgut

Gazi Yalcin
as Turkish Band (Gallipoli)

Brad Turner
as Turkish Band (Gallipoli)

Fabian Hevia
as Turkish Band (Gallipoli)

Ethem Temizkanoglu
as Villager

Varlam Nikoladze
as Old Pleasant

Nigar Alkan Sen
as Woman in Village

Muammer Er
as Villager

Ali Akkus
as Villager

Agani Gecmez
as Barber

Mustafa Konukcu
as Whirling Dervish Leader

Mehmet Emin Kabakci
as Whirling Dervish

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Audience Reviews for The Water Diviner

• Oct 18, 2015

  All the excitement you'd expect from a film about the battle for Gallipoli -- or, rather, from slogging through the mud of the battle field four years later in order to inexplicably, magically divine the places where your three sons died...one...by...one....in order to fulfill a promise to a depressed woman who killed herself long ago. Quick tip: Save you ticket money and take a two hour nap instead!
  Christian C Super Reviewer
• Sep 07, 2015

  A cheesey love story that has an equally absurd plot. Well acted shame about the rest.
  Film C Super Reviewer
• May 27, 2015

  Russell Crowe's performance is the only thing that prevents this from being a complete disaster, since his awful direction and the lame script turn the film into a Mexican telenovela for alpha males, with ludicrous situations, cheesy dialogue and Olga Kurylenko as an irritating caricature.
  Carlos M Super Reviewer
• May 10, 2015

  Deserving more attention that it has thus far received, The Water Diviner represents Russell Crowe's directorial debut and the result is relatively successful, if unspectacular. While the plot involves an Australian man traveling to British-occupied post-Ottoman Turkey, trying to recover his sons' remains in the aftermath of WWI (all three were presumably killed at The Battle of Gallipoli), it is framed as a journey of self- discovery with light romantic elements. Crowe proves to be a competent but not exceptional director. His true talents lie in front of the camera and he is still an able lead, provided he has something to work with. Olga Kurylenko perks up the picture a bit with her charms, even if her casting as a Turkish woman is questionable. (She's French Russian, but Hollywood has been doing this shit forever, so who cares right?) There are many historical elements that go nowhere - the British Occupation, Turkish Nationalist movements, the Greek Invasion, women's lack of rights in an Islamic society, among others that just form noise and an interesting backdrop. What proves more substantial is the film's true subtext about the aftermath of the WWI itself. I would argue that The Water Diviner is a light, somber epitaph to the generation of young men lost on both sides of the Middle Eastern campaign and the people they left behind. It's not perfect and lacks the punch it might have had, but the topic is something more Americans need to be familiar with, and you could do far worse things with your time.
  

  Joshua S Super Reviewer

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