12
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.
Cast
Sergey Makovetskiy
1-y prisyazhnyy
Sergey Garmash
3-y prisyazhnyy
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Apti Magamaev
Malchik
Nikita Mikhalkov
2-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
Eduard Artemyev
Composer
Vladislav Opelyants
Cinematographer