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.
DirectorThomas Vinterberg
ProducersAriel Zeitoun, Jérôme de Béthune, Christophe Toulemonde, Fabrice Delville, Patrick Vandenbosch
ScreenplayRobert Rodat
Top Casts
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
Artemiy Spiridonov
Misha Averin
Joel Basman
Leo
Details
LanguageEnglish
Production companiesBelga Productions, VIA EST, EuropaCorp
Budget20000000
TaglineTogether till the end
