2018 · drama · history · thriller
Kursk
Directed by Thomas Vinterberg1h 58m2018
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.
Our read: Kursk (2018) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama · history · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme drama / history, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- extreme
- bleak
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