HEROES ARE NOT ONLY MADE IN WARS.

When a Russian nuclear sub sinks in Barents Sea in 2000, a rescue mission begins… but will the Russians allow help from the British Royal Navy?

Based on a book by an investigative journalist, this drama depicts the last hours of the survivors down in Kursk, their relatives who butt heads with the incompetent political and military leadership in Russia, and a British officer who tries to offer a helping hand.

Hard to find much tension in a crisis so obviously hopeless right from the start as this one.

2018-Belgium-France-Luxembourg. 117 min. Color. Widescreen. Directed by Thomas Vinterberg. Screenplay: Robert Rodat. Book: Robert Moore (”A Time to Die”). Cast: Matthias Schoenaerts (Mikhail Averin), Léa Seydoux (Tanya Averina), Colin Firth (David Russell), Peter Simonischek, August Diehl, Max von Sydow… Pernilla August, Gustaf Hammarsten. 

Trivia: Co-executive produced by Luc Besson. Released in the U.S. as The Command; in the U.K. as Kursk: The Last Mission. Rachel McAdams was considered for a role; Michael Nyqvist was cast and filmed scenes, but his role was recast after his death in 2017.