Kursk

Synopsis

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.

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Top of the call sheet

• 
  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

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