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Rating: 6.7/10 by 609 users

Kursk (2018)

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.

Directing:
  • Thomas Vinterberg
  • Sophie Depraetere
  • Philippe Desiront
  • Suzanne Martin
  • Esteban Sanchez
  • Sinan Saber
  • Patrick Otten
  • Roxana Raducanu
  • Nancy Ferri
  • Martin Doepner
  • Carlota González-Hontoria Lefèvre
  • Matthias Morard
  • Candice Bibauw
  • Roxanne Gaucherand
  • Pierre Truong Tan Trung
Writing:
  • Robert Rodat
  • Robert Moore
Stars:
Release Date: Wed, Nov 07, 2018

Rating: 6.7/10 by 609 users

Alternative Title:
Kursk: The Last Mission - GB
Atrapados: Una historia verdadera - MX
The Command - US
Atrapados: Una historia verdadera - ES
Kursk - Niemand hat eine Ewigkeit - DE
Курск - RU
Kursk - BA

Country:
Belgium
France
Luxembourg
Language:
English
Runtime: 01 hour 58 minutes
Budget: $20,000,000
Revenue: $0

Plot Keyword: submarine, based on true story, struggle for survival, russian politics, russian history, sunken submarine, naval disaster, underwater rescue

Léa Seydoux
Tanya Averina
Peter Simonischek
Admiral Vyacheslav Grudzinsky
Max von Sydow
Admiral Vladimir Petrenko
August Diehl
Anton Markov
Colin Firth
Commodore David Russell
Bjarne Henriksen
Russian Rescue Ship Captain
Magnus Millang
Oleg Lebedev
Martin Brambach
Kursk Captain Gennady Shirokov
Peter Plaugborg
Kursk Executive Officer Alexander Grekov
Guillaume Kerbusch
Torpedo's Room Midshipman Alexi Zhukov
Koen De Sutter
Admiral Ivakin (Peter the Great)
Gustaf Hammarsten
Lesser Admiral Mikhail Denisov (Peter the Great)
Aske Bang
Lt. Pulsky (Peter the Great)
Lars Brygmann
Priz Pilot Kasyenenko
Martin Greis-Rosenthal
Priz Pilot Ilyushin
Steven Waddington
Graham Mann (Seaway Eagle)
John Hollingworth
Lt. Bruce Hamil
Josse De Pauw
Vadim Markov, Anton's Father
Feđa Štukan
Warehouse Worker Goncharov
Jehon Gorani
Warehouse Worker Oblomov
Miglen Mirtchev
Russian Captain Ivan Timoshenko
Mark Irons
Russian Head of the SVR Vladimir Laskutin
Zlatko Burić
Kulkin, Veteran Swimmer on Rudnitsky
Eva van der Gucht
Marina Lebedev
Geoffrey Newland
Rescue Team Diver Tony Scott
Danny van Meenen
Rescue Team Diver Paal Dinessen
Guido De Craene
Captain Calpin (Peter the Great)
Marjan De Schutter
Anastasia Dudko
Gabriela Cotet
Wife Daycare #1
Olga Markina
Wife Daycare #2
David Russell
Old Sailor New

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 information, does make you wonder. - Jake Watt Read Jake's full article... https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/review-kursk-when-tragedy-and-bureaucracy-collide Head to https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/sff for more Sydney Film Festival reviews.

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 elicits good, solid, performances from Matthias Schoenaerts and August Diehl who manage to convey the claustrophobic scenes on board remarkably well. Max von Sydow exemplifies the old guard establishment figure to a T and lends all the more to the frustration that maybe more could have been done to save lives had politicking played a less prominent role in the salvage process. Any comments on the accuracy of the efforts at international collaboration would be speculative, but Colin Firth does imbue some genuine sense of eagerness to assist and an awareness of the urgencies involved. This is well worth a watch.


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