Search results
People also ask
Why are submarine movies so popular?
What makes a good submarine movie?
Are submarines a good movie setting?
What are the best submarine movies?
Are submarines blind?
Do submarines have eyes?
With Matthias Schoenaerts, Léa Seydoux, Peter Simonischek, August Diehl. The 2000 K-141 Kursk submarine disaster is followed by governmental negligence. As the sailors fight for survival, their families desperately battle political obstacles and impossible odds to save them.
- (22K)
- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Thomas Vinterberg
- 2019-06-21
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. It stars Matthias Schoenaerts, Léa Seydoux, Peter Simonischek, August Diehl, Max von Sydow, and Colin Firth. It was the ...
- Gino Orlandini
- Das Boot (1981) George Orwell wrote in 1946, "The word Fascism has now no meaning except insofar as it signifies 'something not desirable.'" It's a rejoinder to linguistic laziness that divides the world into two types: Nazis, and everybody else.
- The Enemy Below (1957) "The Enemy Below" (1957) depicts a gripping back-and-forth naval battle in the South Atlantic during WWII between a U.S. destroyer and a German U-boat.
- The Abyss (1989) "The Abyss" is mostly an underwater habitat movie, similar to Barry Levinson's "Sphere." But James Cameron's far superior 1989 sci-fi thriller features submarines with windows, and that allows for the best underwater chase ever put to film.
- The Hunt for Red October (1990) Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels have been made into exactly two classic films: "Patriot Games" in 1992 and "The Hunt for Red October" in 1990.
Mar 10, 2024 · There is something both mesmerizing and ominous about a human-made ship that can sink below the mysterious sea to wander the ocean floor. The best submarine movies utilize these feelings of awe and menace to create a story and tone akin to space movies.
- Zachary Moser
- Above and Below
- A Child’S Courage
- Poignant Performances
- Kursk: Conclusion
Mikhail Averin ( Matthias Schoenaerts) leaves behind his three-year-old son and pregnant wife on land as he works tirelessly to keep himself and his crew alive in a wet and chilling compartment of the Kursk. Having to fight off hypothermia and rising water levels, the crew scrambles to collect oxygen cartridges; found on a mission into the destroye...
One of the more remarkable performances delivered included that of young Artemiy Spiridonov, who plays Averin’s son, Misha. Throughout the entirety of the film, Misha is in the likeness of a fly on a wall, observing but not speaking nor giving light to what he may be thinking. He witnesses his father’s submarine descend into the ocean, his relative...
As Misha portrayed the silent and brooding son struggling with the truth of his father’s fate, other notable performances come from Colin Firth as Commodore David Russell, a British Royal Navy officer who extended his resources and aid to save the surviving men, only to be rejected. Firth maintains his stoic character but the inner struggle is reco...
Kursk (The Command) brings attention to a tragedy that gained minimal coverage in a powerful burst of courage. A film with gripping scenes of camaraderie and vital attention to the truth grants the audience a moment to reflect. What impact do you think disaster films such as Kursk (The Command)have on audiences? Let us know your thoughts in the dis...
- Bree Duwyn
In the cold, dark waters off North Korea a U.S. Navy fast attack submarine meets with a mysterious disaster - it's attacked and nearly sunk by an ominous stealth submarine. Director Brian Trenchard-Smith Stars Adrian Paul Catherine Dent Kent McCord
Jun 20, 2019 · Those familiar with the fate of the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk, which sank in the Barents Sea during a 2000 naval exercise, will already know how Thomas Vinterberg’s “The Command” ends.
Free UK Delivery on Eligible Orders
