Kursk (2018)

Movie
German title	Kursk
Original title	Kursk
Country of production	France , Belgium , Luxembourg
original language	English
Publishing year	2018
length	117 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Thomas Vinterberg
script	Robert Rodat
production	Jérôme de Béthune , Fabrice Delville , Christophe Toulemonde , Patrick Vandenbosch , Ariel Zeitoun
music	Alexandre Desplat
camera	Anthony Dod Mantle
cut	Valdís Óskarsdóttir
occupation
Matthias Schoenaerts : Mikhail Averin Léa Seydoux : Tanya, Mikhail Averin's wife Artemiy Spiridonov : Misha, Mikhail Averin's son Colin Firth : Commodore David Russell Martin Brambach : Captain Shirokov August Diehl : Anton Markov Peter Simonischek : Admiral Vyacheslav Grudzinsky Max von Sydow : Admiral Vladimir Petrenko Michael Nyqvist : Nesterov Bjarne Henriksen : Russian captain Matthias Schweighöfer : Pavel Sonin Lars Brygmann : Kasyanenko

Kursk (advertised as The Command ) is a 2018 film by director Thomas Vinterberg .

action

The film shows the sinking of the Russian nuclear submarine K-141 Kursk in 2000 and the subsequent failure of the state and the navy. While the crew struggles to survive, relatives try desperately to force rescue operations to begin.

background

The film premiered as part of the Special Presentations at the Toronto International Film Festival 2018 in September 2018.

Reviews

“There are events that are too dire to be treated as ordinary accidents and too significant to just be included on the long list of technical disasters. They show the signature of an age and at the same time an eternal pattern of human failure. The sinking of the 'Kursk' is one of them. [...] The chances of turning all of this into a movie story that would be in the least comforting or even uplifting are practically zero. The Danish director Thomas Vinterberg tried it anyway. "

- Andreas Kilb : Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

"The oppressive drama traces the struggle and the growing despair of those trapped, but also thematizes the encrustations of the political systems, the inhumanity of the generals, the courage of the seafarers and the effects on the relatives of the dead."

- Film service

Web links

• Kursk in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Kursk at Rotten Tomatoes (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Release certificate for Kursk . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
2. ↑ Andreas Kilb: A Valhalla drowning masculinity. In: Feuilleton. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 10, 2019, accessed on July 11, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Kursk. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 22, 2020 .