A first official look at Colin Firth, Matthias Schoenaerts, and Léa Seydoux in Kursk, the upcoming submarine drama movie directed by Thomas Vinterberg:
“The film follows the 2000 K-141 Kursk submarine disaster and the governmental negligence that followed. As the sailors fight for survival, their families desperately battle political obstacles and impossible odds to save them.
August 2000. It is the first major Russian Navy exercise since the end of the Soviet Union, but the K-141 Kursk is deemed unsinkable and its crew recognized as the best in the Northern Fleet. Among that crew is Captain-Lieutenant Mikhail Kalekov (Matthias Schoenaerts), a devoted naval officer with a loving wife (Léa Seydoux), a child, and another on the way. He and his crew board the Kursk and descend into the Barents Sea with a sense of optimism and fraternity.
Many lives are lost instantly, but Mikhail and others are safe in one of the sealed rear compartments. They have air and food to last until they are rescued, but when will help arrive? Once the sub’s seismic activity is detected, Britain, France, and Norway offer their assistance, but Russia insists it has the situation under control. Time is of the essence, but time keeps passing…”
I know I would have gone crazy in that submarine… Pour souls… Anyway, interesting movie ahead!
No official US release date yet.
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