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2018 film by Thomas Vinterberg

Kursk (UK: Kursk: The Last Mission, US: The Command) is a 2018 disasterdrama-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 last film featuring von Sydow to be released before his death in March 2020.

Plot

The Russian Navy'sNorthern Fleet begins an exercise in the Barents Sea.

The fleet deployed includes Kursk, an Oscar-class submarine.

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At sea, weapons officer Pavel Sonin reports that the interior temperature of a HTP torpedo is increasing rapidly, indicating a potential hydrogen peroxide leak. The captain however ignores Pavel's concerns and moments later the torpedo prematurely explodes, killing the weapons room crew.

A secondary explosion of the remaining torpedoes rips a hole through the subm