Despite all the British Military obstacles to his search, will Joshua Connor finally find his sons?

Rating: Null/10 (28 November 2014)

THE WATER DIVINER is an epic Australian historical action drama, opening in Australian Cinemas on Boxing Day, and is Russell Crowe's directorial debut, and written by Andrew Anastasios and Andrew Knight.
In World War I, "The Gallipoli Campaign", was an awful and notable failed offensive by the Allies, and took place on the Gallipoli peninsula for eight months from 25 April 1915. Gallipoli derives its name from the Greek word "Καλλίπολις" (Kallipolis), meaning "Beautiful City", and where the Anzac Legend began. "Anzac Day" every 25th of April, commemorates the date of that military landing at Gallipoli, and remains the most significant day for Australian and New Zealand commemoration of our military casualties and our veterans from all wars.
In 1919, long after the Battle of Gallipoli, an Australian farmer Joshua Connor (Russell Crowe) travels to Constantinople, Turkey and then to the former battlefields of Gallipoli (Turkish: 'Gelibolu') to fulfill a pledge he made on his wife's grave, to find his three missing sons, lost during the battles at Gallipoli, and then bring them back home to Australia.
Connor is an amazing water diviner that can follow and find life-giving water buried deep under the earth, but finding his three sons seems impossible, when faced with the gruesome battlefield landscape of the sun-dried bones of the thousands of buried soldiers from both sides.
Despite all the British Military obstacles to his search, will Connor finally find his sons? In the enemy capital city, Connor meets Orhan, a young and very mischievous Turkish boy who then guides him to stay at his family's hotel, run by his mother Ayshe (Olga Kurylenko). At long last a Turkish former-officer gives the broken father hope. Connor risks his life to travel into the heart of Anatolia with that Turk.
Entertainment One and Universal Pictures will jointly release the film in Australia, with Universal Pictures solely releasing the film for Europe and Canada, and with Warner Bros. in the USA.
Go the Rabbitohs. Starring: Russell Crowe, Olga Kurylenko ("The November Man"), Yilmaz Erdogan ("The Butterfly's Dream"), Cem Yilmaz ("The Magician"), Jai Courtney ("Divergent"), Ryan Corr ("Not Suitable for Children," "Where the Wild Things Are"), James Fraser ("The Turning"), Ben O'Toole (TV's "Love Child") and Isabel Lucas ("Red Dawn"), Megan Gale, Deniz Akdeniz, Mert Firat, Daniel Wyllie, Damon Herriman, Steve Bastoni, Jacqueline McKenzie,
OFLC classification: rated M
Running time 111 minutes.
On 9 December 2014, published by Pan Macmillan, "The Water Diviner" novel will be released in Australia.
28 November 2014 this is the first published review of THE WATER DIVINER at www.IMDb.com
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03 December 2014 Russell Crowe's THE WATER DIVINER receives eight AACTA Australian Academy Award Nominations
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THE WATER DIVINER is fiction inspired by true events, plot premise is based on the one very intriguing line found in a letter from Lieutenant Colonel Cyril Hughes, who was an integral part of the Imperial War Graves unit in Turkey in the years immediately after the First World War: "One old chap managed to get here from Australia, looking for his son's grave".
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