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12
- Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
- Release Date: 20 September 2007 (Russia)
- Writers: Nikita Mikhalkov (writer) & Aleksandr Novototsky (writer) ...
- Run Time: 159 min
- Country: Russia
- Genre: Crime , Drama , Thriller , War
- MPAA: Rated PG-13 for violent images, disturbing content, thematic material, brief sexual and drug references, and smoking.
Watch movie: 12 (2007)
Trivia: The movie has an epigraph ("Don't look here for the truth of everyday life, but try to feel the truth of being") and an epilogue ("The law comes before everything, but what's to be done if the mercy comes before the law?"). Both are quotations from one B. Tosia. Most probably, he (or she) never lived and is the fictional alter ego of Nikita Mikhalkov.
"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"