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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.
2018 · Directed by Thomas Vinterberg · 118 min · Drama · History · Thriller · Action · 9 frames
Tagline
Together till the end.
Crew
- Screenplay: Robert Rodat
- Cinematography: Anthony Dod Mantle
- Edited by: Valdís Óskarsdóttir
- Music: Alexandre Desplat
- Production design: Thierry Flamand
- Produced by: Ariel Zeitoun, Jérôme de Béthune, Fabrice Delville, Christophe Toulemonde
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
Production
- Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
- Language: English
- Studios: Belga Productions, VIA EST, EuropaCorp
- Budget: $20,000,000
- Themes: submarine, based on true story, struggle for survival, russian politics, russian history, sunken submarine, naval disaster, underwater rescue
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