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.
Keywords:
Submarine
Based on true story
Struggle for survival
Russian politics
Russian history
Sunken submarine
Naval disaster
Underwater rescue
Movie tag line: "Together till the end"
Character: Mikhail Averin
Character: Tanya Averina
Character: Admiral Vyacheslav Grudzinsky
Character: Admiral Vladimir Petrenko
Character: Anton Markov