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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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