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.

Year

2007

Movie time

159 min

Directed by

Nikita Mikhalkov

Cast

Sergey Makovetskiy, Sergey Garmash, Apti Magamaev

7.6/10

IMDB

77%

Rotten Tomatoes

72/100

Metacritic

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