| Title | : | 12 |
|---|---|---|
| Release | : | 2007 |
| Rating | : | 7.7 |
| Language | : | Russian, Chechen |
| Runtime | : | 159 |
| Genre | : | Crime,Drama,Thriller |
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.
Nikita Mikhalkov, Aleksandr Novototskiy-Vlasov, Vladimir Moiseenko
