With jobs for submarine operators steadily beginning to dwindle, an entire sea crew find themselves without jobs. Captain Robinson (Jude Law) has been so committed to the job for so long, that the rest of the world has moved on without him. With his family gone, Robison is turned on to the reports of a Nazi U-boat abandoned at the bottom of the Black Sea. After assembling a crew of half British and half Russian sailors, they set of in search of the gold stash - a stash which will be shared equally amongst them, making them all multi-millionaires. But when the idea starts to circulate that fewer men mean larger shares, the bleak isolation leads to horror and greed, with no possibility of escape.
Director Kevin Macdonald ('The Last King of Scotland') has teamed up with theatre and television screen writer Dennis Kelly. Kelly's film screenwriting debut, 'Black Sea', is an adventure-thriller which began production in February, 2012. During the Cannes Film Festival in 2013, Focus Features acquired the distribution rights for the film ahead of filming, on the same day the Jude Law signed on to the project. It is set to be released in the UK on 5th December 2014, with a US release date following on 23rd January, 2015.
Starring: Jude Law, Scoot McNairy, Tobias Menzies, Grigoriy Dobrygin, Ben Mendelsohn, Jodie Whittaker, June Smith, David Threlfall, Michael Smiley, Karl Davies, Paulina Boneva, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Daniel Ryan, Stephen McDade, Bobby Schofield, Branwell Donaghey, Georg Nikoloff, Paul Terry, Llewella Gideon, Mihai Arsene, Sergey Puskepalis