Kursk: The Last Mission [DVD]

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Colin Firth to Star in Submarine Disaster Movie 'Kursk' ". The Hollywood Reporter. 25 May 2016 . Retrieved 14 March 2017. Alexandre Desplat to Score Thomas Vinterberg's 'Kursk' ". Film Music Reporter. 8 May 2017 . Retrieved 9 May 2017. Michael Nyqvist, ‘Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’ Star, Dies at 56. By Alex Stedman. Variety.com, June 27, 2017.

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One of the foreigners trying to help is real life Commodore David Russell (Colin Firth), commander of HMS Vanguard, a Trident nuclear vessel. However, the Russian government, despite the offers coming from the international community refused help and wasted valuable time. They would have rather sacrificed these sailors rather than swallow their pride and request help. One of the key Russian dignataries from the upper echelons is played by the ever stable Max Von Sydow. it is a virtual certainty that US, UK or other NATO assistance could not have saved a single life on the Kursk. Kursk's bow was 75' into the mud and the boat was at a list of 60 degrees; meaning given all the rescue methods that at the time relied on vacuum seal would not work. But, as depicted in the film, the once-powerful Russian Navy was vastly depleted and under crippling financial strain by 2000. “Twenty years ago for this exercise we had three times this number of ships,” says Admiral Grudzinsky (Peter Simonischek) as he looks on the fleet. On 8 May 2017, Peter Simonischek, Max von Sydow and Michael Nyqvist were announced in the cast. [17] However, Nyqvist died on 27 June. [18] a b "Kursk Submarine Disaster Movie in the Works at Luc Besson's EuropaCorp". Variety. 17 August 2015 . Retrieved 14 March 2017.

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despite half dozen or so peacetime submarine accidents with casualties of about 100, in comparison to peacetime army, surface navy, air force, both the US and USSR/Russian submarine services have been relatively low causality. Peacetime submarine service is less fatalities per man year than occur in land vehicle accidents, air crashes etc. What followed was a media storm, with accusations of a cover up and a major political misfire by the newly elected President Vladmir Putin, who had refused to cut short his holiday while his submariners were dying. Oscarwinnaar zes weken in ons land voor duurste filmproductie op Belgische bodem". De Standaard (in Dutch). 10 March 2017 . Retrieved 14 March 2017.

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Shooting was scheduled to start in September 2016, but it had to be postponed due to Russia's defence ministry not issuing a permit for shooting in the country, which would run for about a month. [21] According to The Hollywood Reporter, Russia's defense ministry originally promised cooperation with the crew to provide realism to the movie. [ citation needed] However, later it reportedly grew concerned about granting access to classified information and sensitive locations. [4] On 7 February 2017, ScreenDaily.com reported that shooting was scheduled to start in April. [20] The disaster took place while the sub was on naval exercises in the Barents Sea. When an explosion takes place in the sub, the vessel sinks to the bottom, killing the majority of the crew, save for 23 survivors (accrding to the film), who seal themselves in one section of the sub. Of course all the while this is happening, oxygen is running out. One of the lead men is Captain-lieutenant Mikhail Averin (Matthias Schoenaerts) who tries to galvanise the men and do something himself to try to escape. Meanwhile, on dry land, Averin’s wife, Tanya (Lea Seydoux) tries to battle the authorities for information. In the film, a rescue attempt is made, but in reality this never happened and the surviving men were already dead by the time this rescue effort took place. It is clear that the filmmakers took liberties with the story for dramatic effect, but, nevertheless, could have capitalised more on the battle with the authorities. Some commentators here are repeating long debunked myths that the Kurks was sunk in a collision with a US boat or some other external cause. While that was always an unlikely scenario, it could not be ruled out at the time -- BUT for a decade they Russian Navy and sober Russians have known,with 100% certainty, this was a torpedo malfunction inside the Kursk. It’s an unlikely lurch toward the multiplex for a director who once co-founded the Dogme 95 movement with Lars von Trier and there are some interesting stylistic choices at play. The most notable, and successful, of these is Vinterberg’s decision to play with the screen ratio, only widening it out when the Kursk is submerged, and elsewhere, he employs intimate camerawork in the scenes between the men both above and below sea level, an independent touch in a broader picture, and some eerily effective views of the water that surrounds the ailing sub. It’s not all quite as effective, however. Given the budget and the ensuing expectations, Kursk exists in that familiar movie universe where Russian characters are played by Belgian, French, German and Swedish actors, all of whom speak English throughout. It’s a price to pay for a wider audience and while initially distracting, it could have been far worse (*coughs* Harrison Ford in K-19 *ends coughing*).On 2 March 2016, Matthias Schoenaerts was announced in the cast, reteaming with Vinterberg after Far from the Madding Crowd (2015). [14] Colin Firth joined the cast on 26 May 2016. [15] Léa Seydoux joined the cast on 7 February 2017, in the role of Tanya, the wife of Mikhail Averin, a Russian Navy captain-lieutenant played by Matthias Schoenaerts. Rachel McAdams was once in talks for the role of Tanya. [9] Deadline Hollywood also reported that Firth would play David Russell, a British naval commander going against Russia's warnings to try to save the men on the Kursk. [9] Time is running out for Russian Captain Mikhail Averin (Matthias Schoenaerts) and his crew, as fire engulfs the vessel starving them of oxygen. Ignoring the advice of their own people, the Russian government refuses the help of the UK Navy operation headed by Captain David Russell (Colin Firth). When they finally give way to mounting domestic pressure, it’s too little too late… a b c d e f g "Thomas Vinterberg's Kursk movie, now in production, will shoot all over Europe". ComingSoon.net. 8 May 2017 . Retrieved 9 May 2017. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 6 September 2018, where Thomas Vinterberg (director) and Artemiy Spiridonov (actor) presented the film in English and Russian languages. [26] The film was scheduled to be released through DirecTV Cinema on 23 May 2019, before being released in a limited release on 21 June 2019, by Saban Films. [27] Reception [ edit ] On 17 August 2015, it was announced that EuropaCorp was developing a film based on the 2000 K-141 Kursk submarine disaster, and that Martin Zandvliet had been hired to direct the film from a script by Robert Rodat, based on Robert Moore's 2002 book A Time to Die. Kursk would have been Zandvliet's first English-language film. [3] On 21 January 2016, it was reported that Zandvliet was no longer attached and that EuropaCorp had hired Thomas Vinterberg to direct the film. [13]

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Brest: Tournage d'un film sur le naufrage du Koursk". Mer et Marine (in French). 9 May 2017 . Retrieved 9 May 2017. Ok, I am not fan at all of Soviet communism, of Russian nationalism under Putin, but this film is not bashing those evils -- it is bashing the Russian navy and doing so with falsehoods. it is political elements in Russia that underfunded and rushed the Kursk dangerous and haphazard refitting, that pushed early deployment, not their navy.Seeberg, Kenan (9 April 2017). "Seven Danes to Play in Big American Disaster Movie". Metroxpress (in Danish). Archived from the original on 17 March 2018 . Retrieved 29 September 2017. Matthias Schoenaerts & Thomas Vinterberg Reunite On EuropaCorp Sub Tale 'Kursk' ". Deadline Hollywood. 2 March 2016 . Retrieved 14 March 2017. They ran out of money,” says Philip D Grove, a naval historian and lecturer at Britannia Royal Navy College. “People were short of pay, there were poorly trained conscripts, and some of them were giving up their jobs. The whole thing was breaking down by the mid-to-late Nineties. The film could even have played even more on the critical downsizing of the Russian Navy, because psychologically that was important for everyone involved.” On August 12, 2000, two underwater explosions sank the Kursk, Russia’s most technologically advanced submarine, plunging it 100m to the bottom of the Barents Sea. The second explosion was so big that it hit 4.2 on the Richter scale and was detected as far away as Alaska. Initially there were survivors – a reported 23 men trapped in the husk of the submarine – but after days of botched rescue attempts and stubbornness from the Russian Navy, the disaster had claimed the lives of all 118 crew members.

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Russian Shoot of Colin Firth Disaster Movie Postponed". The Hollywood Reporter. 16 August 2016 . Retrieved 14 March 2017. Thomas Vinterberg to Direct 'Kursk' Submarine Movie for Luc Besson's EuropaCorp". Variety. 21 January 2016 . Retrieved 14 March 2017. In the US and USSR and Russian Navy's NO ONE is forced into submariner service. During conscription and volunteer (US) and conscription (USSR/Russia), assignment to submarine is elite and sought after assignment for both officers and enlisted personnel. Cast: Matthias Schoenaerts, Léa Seydoux, Peter Simonischek, August Diehl, Max von Sydow, Colin Firth

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Ouest france (5 May 2017). "Brest: Vintenberg tells part of the history of Kursk". Ouest france (in French) . Retrieved 9 May 2017. Summary: Based on the gripping true story of the Kursk submarine tragedy of 2000 in which 188 men lost their lives, Kursk: The Last Mission is a tense submarine thriller from critically- acclaimed director Thomas Vinterberg ( The Hunt, Far From the Madding Crowd). When a Russian naval exercise goes horribly wrong, the Kursk submarine erupts in flame killing most of the men onboard and sending the trapped survivors to the bottom of sea.