Matthias Schoenaerts as Captain-Lieutenant Mikhail Averin.A land-based member of the crew gives Misha his father's maritime watch his father had earlier sold it so that he could buy champagne for Pavel Sonin's wedding. At the funeral Misha, son of one of the sailors on board, refuses to shake Admiral Petrenko's hand. Russell's divers arrive too late at the submarine, finding the entire hull flooded and the crew dead. With minutes of breathable air, the crew say their goodbyes whilst singing ‘The Sailor's Band’. A third Russian attempt to rescue the survivors is made, but again the Russian submersible still cannot force a seal and the Russians ultimately and finally agree to foreign assistance.Īboard the Kursk, the crew, in an attempt to raise morale, enjoy a "breakfast buffet", during which a crew member accidentally knocks an oxygen cartridge into the water, causing a flash fire that consumes the remaining oxygen. The Russian Navy orders Russell, along with British and Norwegian divers, not to approach the Kursk. Despite this, Admiral Grudzinsky accepts an earlier offer from Russell, but Grudzinsky is relieved of command shortly afterwards. On land the sailors' families, wives and friends grow resentful of the repeated stone-walling by the Russian Admiralty, who also reject foreign offers of help for fear of exposing Russian naval secrets. Another rescue attempt is made, but the submersible again cannot form a seal on the hull. Meanwhile the survivors begin to run low on air, requiring two crew members to swim into a flooded compartment to retrieve oxygen cartridges. The old and poorly maintained craft cannot form a seal on the Kursk 's hull and is forced to return to the surface and wait for a 12-hour battery recharge. Admiral Grudzinsky, commander of the Northern Fleet, initially believes there are no survivors, but immediately tapping is heard through the hull of the submarine and the Russians deploy a rescue submersible. Royal Navy Commodore David Russell detects the seismic events and deduces that Kursk has had an accident. The crew desperately await rescue, while on dry land the sailors’ wives begin to hear rumours regarding the submarine. The surviving crew members rally at the aft-most compartment, now rapidly taking on water. A secondary explosion of the remaining torpedoes rips a hole through the submarine's forward hull, sending the ship to the sea bed. The captain however ignores Pavel's concerns and moments later the torpedo prematurely explodes, killing the weapons room crew. At sea, weapons officer Pavel Sonin reports that the interior temperature of a HTP torpedo is increasing rapidly, indicating a potential hydrogen peroxide leak. The fleet deployed includes Kursk, an Oscar-class submarine. The Russian Navy's Northern Fleet begins an exercise in the Barents Sea. It was the last film featuring von Sydow to be released before his death in March 2020. It stars Matthias Schoenaerts, Léa Seydoux, Peter Simonischek, August Diehl, Max von Sydow, and Colin Firth. Kursk (UK: Kursk: The Last Mission, US: The Command) is a 2018 disaster drama- thriller film directed by Thomas Vinterberg, based on Robert Moore's book A Time to Die, about the true story of the 2000 Kursk submarine disaster.
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