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.
Matthias Schoenaerts
as Mikhail Averin
Léa Seydoux
as Tanya Averina
Peter Simonischek
as Admiral Vyacheslav Grudzinsky
Max von Sydow
as Admiral Vladimir Petrenko
August Diehl
as Anton Markov
Colin Firth
as Commodore David Russell
Bjarne Henriksen
as Russian Rescue Ship Captain
Magnus Millang
as Oleg Lebedev
Artemiy Spiridonov
as Misha Averin
Joel Basman
as Leo
Pit Bukowski
as Maxim
Matthias Schweighöfer
as Pavel Sonin
