12 (2007)
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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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