12 - 12 (2007)

Director:

Nikita Mikhalkov

Genre:

Crime, Drama, Thriller, War

Country:

Russia

Year:

2007

IMDB Rating:

7,6

Rating:

Links:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0488478/

Cast:

Sergey Makovetskiy	1-y prisyazhnyy
Nikita Mikhalkov	2-y prisyazhnyy
Sergey Garmash	3-y prisyazhnyy
Valentin Gaft	4-y prisyazhnyy
Aleksey Petrenko	5-y prisyazhnyy
Yuriy Stoyanov	6-y prisyazhnyy
Sergey Gazarov	7-y prisyazhnyy
Mikhail Efremov	8-y prisyazhnyy
Aleksey Gorbunov	9-y prisyazhnyy
Sergey Artsibashev	10-y prisyazhnyy

A loose remake of 12 oameni furiosi (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.