12 / Twelve
Barcode: 58954306
Call Number: V-RUS 060
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 160 min.
Date: 2007
Language: Russian
Creator: Directed by Nikita Mikhalkov
Description: 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.
Collection: Language Resource Center