Director : Nikita Mikhalkov
Release Date : 20 September 2007 (Russia)
Genre : Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Cast : (Credited cast) , Sergei Makovetsky, Sergey Garmash, Aleksei Petrenko, Yuriy Stoyanov, Sergei Gazarov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Mikhail Yefremov, Valentin Gaft, Aleksey Gorbunov, Sergei Artsybashev, Viktor Verzhbitskiy, Roman Madyanov, Aleksandr Adabashyan, Apti Magamaev
Plot : 12 jurors must decide the fate of a Chechen teenager charged with murdering his stepfather.
Run Time : 159 min
Country : Russia
MPAA : Rated PG-13 for violent images, disturbing content, thematic material, brief sexual and drug references, and smoking.
Language : Russian | Chechen
Filming Locations : Mosfilm Studios, Moscow, Russia
Company : Studio Trite
Trivia : Youri Stoyanov’s character (the guy “from” Harvard) shows the picture of his mom to the cemetery director. In fact it’s Youri himself on the photo in female dress and make-up. Picture is taken from the TV-show “Gorodok” which made him a star.
Goofs : Factual errors: In a scene showing a Chechen town the writing on the wall says “Don’t shoot. Only women and children here” but only in Russian. In Chechnia all signs like that were written in three languages – Russian, Chechen and Arabic because Middle Eastern mercenaries participating the conflict could not read in Russian. Besides, it’s difficult to believe someone would put such a sign and thus indicate there is SOMEONE in there.
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Plot Summary : A loose remake of <a href="/title/tt0050083/">12 Angry Men</a> (1957), set in a Russian school. 12 jurors are struggling to decide the fate of a Chechen teenager who allegedly killed his Russian stepfather. Stepfather took teenager to live with him to Moscow, during Chechnya 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.
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