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| Release Date: |
September 20, 2007 |
| Genre: |
Crime, Drama, Foreign |
| Running Time: |
159 minutes |
| MPAA Rating: |
Not Rated |
| Director: |
Nikita Mikhalkov |
| Writer: |
Nikita Mikhalkov, Reginald Rose |
| Cast: |
Nikita Mikhalkov, Mikhail Yefremov, Sergei Garmash, Viktor Verzhbitsky, Valentin Gaft |
A loose remake of 12 Angry Men (1957), set in a Russian school in the war-torn republic of Chechnya. 12 jurors are struggling to decide the fate of a Chechen teenager (Apti Magamaev) who allegedly killed his Russian stepfather. 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. Amidst the battle between Chechens Read more
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