12

Sep 20 2007 PG-13 2h 39m
Crime, Drama, Thriller

A loose remake of “12 Angry Men”, “12” is set in contemporary Moscow where 12 very different men must unanimously decide the fate of a young Chechen accused of murdering his step-father, a Russian army officer. Consigned to a makeshift jury room in a school gymnasium, one by one each man takes center stage to confront, connect, and confess while the accused awaits a verdict and revisits his heartbreaking journey through war in flashbacks.

Plot

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.

Written by

Nikita Mikhalkov, Aleksandr Novototskiy-Vlasov, Vladimir Moiseenko

Directed by

Nikita Mikhalkov

Cast

Sergey Makovetskiy, Sergey Garmash, Apti Magamaev

Crew

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Production Countries

Russia

Production Companies

Mosfilm, Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematograph, Studio Trite

Languages

Awards

Nominated for 1 Oscar. 10 wins & 9 nominations total

Trailers
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Scores
# of Votes
15,902
Average Rating
7.5 out of 10
Metascore
72
Popularity
NA