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.
Director(s): Thomas Vinterberg
Writer(s): Robert Rodat
Producer(s): Ariel Zeitoun, Christophe Toulemonde, Patrick Vandenbosch, Fabrice Delville, Jérôme de Béthune
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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 ...