Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Cast
Sergey Makovetskiy ... Juror #1
Nikita Mikhalkov ... Juror #2
Sergey Garmash ... Juror #3
Valentin Gaft ... Juror #4
Aleksei Petrenko ... Juror #5
Yuriy Stoyanov ... Juror #6
Sergey Gazarov ... Juror #7
Mikhail Efremov ... Juror #8
Aleksey Gorbunov ... Juror #9
Sergei Artsybashev ... Juror #10
Viktor Verzhbitskiy ... Juror #11
Roman Madyanov ... Juror #12
Aleksandr Adabashyan ... Bailiff
Genre: Drama | Crime
Runtime: 160 min`s
Sound: Russian
Subtitles: none
Region - 5 (Russia) PAL
12 jurors must decide the fate of a Chechen teenager charged with murdering his stepfather.
A loose remake of 12 Angry Men, 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.