Kursk
Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accident, the K-141 Kursk submarine sinks with 118 crew members on board. While the few sailors who are still alive barely manage to survive, their families push for accurate information and a British officer struggles to obtain from the Russian government a permit to attempt a rescue before it is late. But general incompetence are against all their efforts.
Cast
Matthias Schoenaerts
as Mikhail Averin
Léa Seydoux
as Tanya Averina
Peter Simonischek
as Admiral Vyacheslav Grudzinsky
Max von Sydow
as Admiral Vladimir Petrenko
August Diehl
as Anton Markov
Colin Firth
as Commodore David Russell
Bjarne Henriksen
as Russian Rescue Ship Captain
Magnus Millang
as Oleg Lebedev
Artemiy Spiridonov
as Misha Averin
Joel Basman
as Leo
Reviews
SWITCH.
Presumably, lessons were learned in the aftermath of this disaster. But the fact that the filming of ‘Kursk’ was delayed after the Russian Ministry of Defence failed to provide a permit on time, with suggestions that they grew concerned over giving the crew access to classified locations and informa...
CinemaSerf
As with many a tale like this - we will probably never know the whole story of how the Russian submarine "Kursk" came to sink and of the desperate attempts to rescue the stranded sailors. What Thomas Vinterberg does here, though, is direct a film with a plausible, quite compelling, narrative that el...
