Apr 8, 2010

12 (2007) - Russia

2007 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE! Best Foreign Language Film
WINNER! 2007 Venice Film Festival, Special Lion (Director Nikita Mikhalkov)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0488478/

Plot & Summary
This is a masterpiece. The beauty of the film is in its simplicity.

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. 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.

Rating
7.8/10 ; 5,273 votes



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Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8

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