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The Prisoner

🎞️ Movie 97 min --
2012

Julia (Julie Cox), an English girl working with an NGO medical aid group in the Caucasus is abducted for ransom by bandits. She escapes into the mountains during the first attacks of the Russian Army on Groznyy (1995) and is found by a Kabardinian violinist spending his summer in a mountain cabin. The bandits, deceiving the authorities and the British Embassy into thinking that she is in their custody, demand a huge ransom of the British Embassy. In the meantime, Ruslan (Andrey Chernichov), a despondent violinist, takes care of Julia's wounds, and in the enforced cohabitation of the cabin the two young people realize the great differences in their cultures, thus creating many arguments and conflicts between them. Eventually, through dialogue and respect and their mutual love of music the two find themselves falling in love. In the meantime, the Russian Security apparatus continues its search of the lost English woman, and the British Embassy is prepared to pay the huge ransom demanded by the original kidnappers, unaware of the deception, creating a thriller subplot. The film is an uplifting love story that shows another picture of Russia to the international audience; this is a multi-national multi-ethnic Russia where the mountaineer's traditions dictates behavior, even in love.

Cast

Julie Cox
Julie Cox
Julia
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Andrey Chernyshov
Ruslan
James Wallace
James Wallace
Simins - The British Consul
Said Dashuk-Nigmatulin
Said Dashuk-Nigmatulin
Azamat
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Mel Borz
Arbi
Rupert Frazer
Rupert Frazer
British Ambassador
Egor Pazenko
Egor Pazenko
Ivan Ivanovich (FSB officer)
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Kuna Zhakamukhova
Ruslan's Mother
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Mohadeen Komakhov
Hussein
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Julie Kinsella
Mrs. Jameson
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Mohy Quandour
Composer
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Frank Grunert
Cinematographer