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Release Date:	March 4, 2009 (NY)
On DVD:	July 14, 2009
Genre:	Drama, Foreign, Suspense, Crime
Director:	Nikita Mikhalkov
Writer:	Nikita Mikhalkov
Cast:	Nikita Mikhalkov, Sergey Makovetsky, Sergey Garmash, Alexy Petrenko, Valentin Graft, Yury Stoyanov, Mikhail Efremov, Sergey Gazarov, Alexander Adabashian, Victor Verzhbitsky, Alexey Gorbunov, Roman Madianov, Sergey Artsybashev
Studio:	Sony Pictures Classics
Official site:	sonyclassics.com
Running Time:	159 minutes
MPAA Rating:	Rated PG-13 for violent images, disturbing content, thematic material, brief sexual and drug references, and smoking

12 jurors are struggling to decide the fate of a Chechen teenager who allegedly killed his Russian stepfather. Stepfather took teenager to live with him to Moscow, during Chechnya war, in which teenager lost his parents. The jurors: a racist taxi-driver, a suspicious doctor, a vacillating TV producer, a Holocaust survivor, a flamboyant musician, a cemetery manager, and others represent the fragmented society of modern day Russia.A stray bird (a touch of New Age cinema)...

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In the Oscar-nominated 12, director and co-writer Nikita Mikhalkov remakes the 1957 classic 12 Angry Men, but with a modern, Russian twist. The result is a three-hour long epic about 12 jurors who must decide the fate of a Chechen immigrant accused of murder.

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