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      • Tackling the tragic 2000 true story of the Russian submarine left stranded for seven days at the bottom of the Barents Sea following a series of explosions, Kursk: The Last Mission (titled The Command in the US) is an intermittently entertaining old-school disaster movie, helped by strong craft, hindered by on-the-nose writing and an overwhelming sense of the familiar.
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  2. 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.

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    • Action, Adventure, Drama
    • Thomas Vinterberg
    • 2019-06-21
    • 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...

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  3. Sep 13, 2018 · Toronto Film Review: ‘Kursk’. Danish director Thomas Vinterberg delivers a starry but anonymous and oddly disengaged re-creation of the 2000 Russian submarine disaster. By Jessica Kiang.

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Kursk_(film)Kursk (film) - Wikipedia

    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 ...

  5. On Aug. 12, 2000, explosions aboard the Russian submarine Kursk cause it to sink during a naval exercise in the Barents Sea, leaving 23 survivors trapped below on the ocean floor.

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    • Thomas Vinterberg
    • PG-13
    • Matthias Schoenaerts
  6. Sep 6, 2018 · Kursk’: Film Review | TIFF 2018. Director Thomas Vinterberg and screenwriter Robert Rodat's undersea melodrama 'Kursk' tackles a true-life maritime tragedy. By Keith Uhlich. September 6, 2018...

  7. The movie is really good, but it does not tell the whole story. The director explains it by telling that he wanted to show the humanity of the Kursk's crew members from one side, and the bureaucracy of the upper military officials on the other side.

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