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  • Genre: Drama, Suspense/Thriller
  • Release Date: 03/04/2009
  • Running Time: 159 mins
  • Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
  • Cast: Sergei Makovetsky, Sergei Garmash, Aleksei Petrenko, Yuri Stoyanov, Sergei Gazarov, Mikita Mikhalkov, Valentin Graft, Mikhail Efremov, Alexander Adabashian, Victor Verzhbitsky
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  • Writer: Nikita Mikhalkov, Vladimir Moiseyenko
  • Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
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12

Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2008, Russian actor/director Nikita Mikhalkov�s masterful, engrossing 12 is finally finding its way into theaters. A revamp of 12 Angry Men that takes place in post-communist Moscow, 12 takes some liberties with both the original material and its new setting: The jury is now deciding the fate of a Chechen youth accused of murdering his adoptive father, a Russian officer, and the story adheres to the pretext of a unanimous vote, although the Russian system does not require it. Despite the abridgment of the title, however, Mikhalkov�s updated jury doesn�t include any females�various sectors of modern Russian society are uniformly represented by late-middle-aged males, with Mikhalkov himself playing the foreman. It�s a fitting choice in that the working men, despite having adapted to both �democratic forces� and capitalism, also embody Russia�s past; over the course of a remarkably fleet 159-minutes, each one shares how that past has shaped him and his perspective on a case loaded with nationalist baggage. Miklahkov keeps twelve tops spinning at all times in the school gymnasium that serves as their deliberation room, and though the speech/conversion pattern grows a little pat, the movement toward consensus raises the further, richly complicated question of how to decide not only what is right, but what is best. — Michelle Orange

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