A loose remake of 12 Angry Men (1957), set in a Russian school. 12 jurors are struggling to decide the fate of a Chechen teenager who allegedly killed his Russian stepfather who took the teenager to live with him in Moscow during the Chechen 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) is flying above the jurors' heads, alluding to tolerance.
| Release Date: | Mar 2009 |
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| Genre: | War / Thriller / Drama / Crime |
| Awards: | Nominated for Oscar. Another 3 wins & 1 nomination |
| Cast: | Sergey Makovetskiy (Juror #1), Nikita Mikhalkov (Juror #2), Sergey Garmash (Juror #3), Valentin Gaft (Juror #4), Aleksei Petrenko (Juror #5), Yuriy Stoyanov (Juror #6), Sergey Gazarov (Juror #7), Mikhail Efremov (Juror #8), Aleksey Gorbunov (Juror #9), Sergei Artsybashev (Juror #10), Viktor Verzhbitskiy (Juror #11), Roman Madyanov (Juror #12), Aleksandr Adabashyan (Bailiff), Apti Magamaev (The Boy), Abdi Magamayev (Little Chechen), Natalya Surkova (Judge), Konstantin Glushkov (Defence Lawyer), Vladimir Nefyodov (Prosecutor), Vyacheslav Gilinov (Grandpa), Lyubov Rudneva (Eyewitness's Daughter), Olga Khokhlova (Neighbour), Igor Vernik (Eyewitness in Golden Eyeglasses), Vladimir Komarov (Boy's Stepfather), Lasha Marykhuba (Guerilla), Ferit Myazitov (Gorbachev), Abdulbasyr Gitinov (Little Boy), Mikael Bazorkin (Father), Mesedo Salimova (Mother), Soslan Sanakoyev (Dancer #1), Alan Tsopanov (Dancer #2), Gennadi Ternovsky (Attack Group Commander), Andrei Sukharev (Cop) |