Kursk poster
Director Thomas Vinterberg
Screenplay Robert Rodat

Kursk

Tagline: Together till the end

Release Date: 2018-11-07

Duration: 118 minutes

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.

Casting

  • Léa Seydoux
    Tanya Averina
  • Colin Firth
    Commodore David Russell
  • Matthias Schweighöfer
    Pavel Sonin
  • Max von Sydow
    Admiral Vladimir Petrenko
  • Zlatko Burić
    Kulkin, Veteran Swimmer on Rudnitsky
  • Matthias Schoenaerts
    Mikhail Averin
  • Peter Plaugborg
    Kursk Executive Officer Alexander Grekov
  • Lars Brygmann
    Priz Pilot Kasyenenko
  • Katrine Greis-Rosenthal
    Daria Sonin
  • August Diehl
    Anton Markov