Movie
Kursk
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2018-11-07
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Genres
- Drama, History, Thriller, Action
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Belga Productions, VIA EST, EuropaCorp
- Country
- Belgium, France, Luxembourg
- Original language
- EN
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
- Pit Bukowski as Maxim
- Matthias Schweighöfer as Pavel Sonin
Crew
- Thomas Vinterberg - Director
- Robert Rodat - Screenplay
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