Kursk

"Together till the end."

2018 1h 58m EN

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Synopsis

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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.

“Together till the end.”

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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

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Writers: Robert Rodat
Languages: English
Countries: Belgium, France, Luxembourg

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Released 8 years ago.

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WORLD

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International production across 3 countries: Belgium, France, Luxembourg.

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CAST

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202+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Thomas Vinterberg, shot by Anthony Dod Mantle. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Alexandre Desplat. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Valdís Óskarsdóttir shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Matthias Schoenaerts and Léa Seydoux and Peter Simonischek carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Together till the end.".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Thomas Vinterberg directs. Anthony Dod Mantle behind the camera. Alexandre Desplat scores. Valdís Óskarsdóttir cuts. Produced in Belgium, France, Luxembourg. Dialogue in English.

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1Released 8 years ago.
2International production across 3 countries: Belgium, France, Luxembourg.
3202+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
4Directed by Thomas Vinterberg, shot by Anthony Dod Mantle. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Alexandre Desplat. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Valdís Óskarsdóttir shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Matthias Schoenaerts and Léa Seydoux and Peter Simonischek carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "Together till the end.".
9IMDB entry: tt4951982 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 8 themes, including "submarine", "based on true story", "struggle for survival", "russian politics".

The technical file

Cinematography: Anthony Dod Mantle
Original score: Alexandre Desplat
Editing: Valdís Óskarsdóttir
Production design: Thierry Flamand
Costume design: Catherine Marchand
Makeup / hair: Robert Smedt
Sound: Jean-Paul Hurier
Runtime: 118 min · 1h 58m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $20,000,000
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Kursk (2018)

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SWITCH.2019-06-11
★ 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 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.
CinemaSerf2024-05-23
★ 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 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.