A secondary explosion of the remaining torpedoes rips a hole through the submarine's forward hull, sending the ship to the sea bed.

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It stars Matthias Schoenaerts, Léa Seydoux, Peter Simonischek, August Diehl, Max von Sydow, and Colin Firth. 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. 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. They were kept in the dark as well as being openly lied to and Seydoux’s steely concern eventually explodes in an electrifying town hall scene before she delivers a gut-wrenching last act speech.

The captain however ignores Pavel's concerns and moments later the torpedo prematurely explodes, killing the weapons room crew. The HTP torpedoes were known to be dangerous – they had caused an explosion on the British submarine Sidon in 1955 – but the Russians continued using them because were cheap to make. The film accurately portrays what is now accepted to have really happened: a hydrogen peroxide leak in one of the sub’s HTP (high test peroxide) torpedoes. This is something which will disturb some audiences more than others, yet I can’t help but regard it as a limitation. 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.

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In the film, a hysterical mother of one trapped submariner is sedated by a shadowy figure at a press conference. I have to admit that before viewing, I knew nothing at all about the Kursk submarine disaster, and so can not comment on the historical accuracy of the events portrayed on screen.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. Matthias Schoenaerts is the captain here reuniting with Vinterberg following the remake of Far from the Madding Crowd (2015) which brought the director into English language cinema and Léa Seydoux does well too - her role being that of the captain’s wife. That was the official Russian line afterwards,” says Grove, “after all the ‘we got rammed by an American submarine’ stuff.

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However, the very fact that it is based on true events adds an extra chilling layer to an already tension filled and heartbreaking experience. A real-life incident not far removed from what was depicted in Morning Departure almost led to a cancellation of its release but the film was fictional. 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. As we meet Mikhail and his fellow sailors, they’re preparing for a wedding, a final hurrah before they head undersea for a weapons test.Despite this, Admiral Grudzinsky accepts an earlier offer from Russell, but Grudzinsky is relieved of command shortly afterwards. I recommend this movie, it feels as if it's a slow movie but it's very compelling to watch because we quickly get to know the characters. Putin, who was just three months into the job as Russian president when the tragedy occurred in 2000, was slated to appear as a supporting character in at least five scenes in the film. I found myself gripping my seat on more than one occasion as the situation the men found themselves in began to worsen, and I lost count of the number of times I involuntarily held my breath during underwater scenes which were literally a matter of life and death for all involved.

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When a routine mission on a Russian submarine goes wrong an explosion kills many of the crew aboard and the remaining survivors reach an outer compartment where the low levels of oxygen leave them anxiously awaiting rescue. First, there’s a 16-hour wait for authorities to even find the sub and then when located, there are deep structural issues with the potential mode of rescue, with shoddy, failing equipment making a difficult mission turn desperately impossible.The crew desperately await rescue, while on dry land the sailors’ wives begin to hear rumours regarding the submarine. It undermined the way the Russians viewed themselves and the way they wanted other people to view them. 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). On 12 July 2017, the crew was in Jette ( Brussels) and scenes were filmed in "Salle Excelsior" (Place Cardinal Mercier). 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.