

Kursk

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.
If the system is more important than the people, people suffer and die. Those men didn't have to die.
Of course there is a bit of dramatization involved, it is a movie not a documentary. But I am glad they didn't turn it into an action-cgi-flick à la Hollywood. The message is clear, yet it is not hammered in.