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Kursk

Kursk

6.6/ 10

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2018

Release Year

118 min

Runtime

Drama
History
Thriller
Action

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.

Keywords

submarine
based on true story
struggle for survival
russian politics
russian history
sunken submarine
naval disaster
underwater rescue

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Reviews(2)

6.5avg rating
SWITCH.

SWITCH.

@maketheSWITCH

June 11, 2019

6
6/10

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 suggestions that they grew concerned over giving the crew access to classified locations and informa

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

May 23, 2024

7
7/10

As with many a tale like this - we will probably never know the whole story of how the Russian submarine "Kursk" came to sink and of the desperate attempts to rescue the stranded sailors. What Thomas Vinterberg does here, though, is direct a film with a plausible, quite compelling, narrative that el

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