Kursk
Barents Sea, August 12, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, following a catastrophic accident, the K-141 Kursk submarine sinks with 118 crew members aboard. The few sailors who survive barely endure, as their families press for accurate information and a British officer struggles to secure from the Russian government the permit to mount a rescue before it is too late. Yet pervasive incompetence thwarts their every effort.
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Thomas Vinterberg
Sophie Depraetere
Philippe Desiront
Roxanne Gaucherand
Patrick Otten
Pierre Truong Tan Trung
Candice Bibauw
Sinan Saber
Matthias Morard
Nancy Ferri
Roxana Raducanu
Esteban Sanchez
Martin Doepner
Carlota González-Hontoria Lefèvre
Suzanne Martin
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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 information, does make you wonder. - Jake Watt Read Jake's full article... https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/review-kursk-when-tragedy-and-bureaucracy-collide Head to https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/sff for more Sydney Film Festival reviews.
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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 elicits good, solid, performances from Matthias Schoenaerts and August Diehl who manage to convey the claustrophobic scenes on board remarkably well. Max von Sydow exemplifies the old guard establishment figure to a T and lends all the more to the frustration that maybe more could have been done to save lives had politicking played a less prominent role in the salvage process. Any comments on the accuracy of the efforts at international collaboration would be speculative, but Colin Firth does imbue some genuine sense of eagerness to assist and an awareness of the urgencies involved. This is well worth a watch.
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