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.
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Crew
DirectorThomas Vinterberg
WriterRobert Rodat
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
Artemiy Spiridonov
Misha Averin
Joel Basman
Leo
Pit Bukowski
Maxim
Matthias Schweighöfer
Pavel Sonin
Tom Hudson
Roman
Chris Pascal
Niko
Kristof Coenen
Sasha
Pernilla August
Oksana
Helene Reingaard Neumann
Vera
Martin Brambach
Kursk Captain Gennady Shirokov
Peter Plaugborg
Kursk Executive Officer Alexander Grekov
Guillaume Kerbusch
Torpedo's Room Midshipman Alexi Zhukov
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Keywords
submarinebased on true storystruggle for survivalrussian politicsrussian historysunken submarinenaval disasterunderwater rescue
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$20M
TMDb Votes
700
Added May 14, 2026Updated Jun 4, 2026