Kursk

2018 • 1h 58m •

Drama History Thriller Action

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★ 6.6/10

726 reviews

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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.

"Together till the end."

Top Billed Cast

Matthias Schoenaerts

Mikhail Averin

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

Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews

S SWITCH. Verified TMDB Critic

2019-06-11

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

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C CinemaSerf Verified TMDB Critic

2024-05-23

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 sa...