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When a Russian youth is put on trial for the murder of his adoptive father, it's up to a room full of jurors divided by racism and prejudice to determine the boy's ultimate fate in director Nikita Mikhalkov's loose remake of Reginald Rose's 12 Angry Men. At the center of the storm is a broodingly ...more

The bailiff locks the doors of a Moscow high school gym and 12 jurors begin deliberations. It’s a seemingly open and shut case.“You’ll be done in 20 minutes,” the bailiff tells the men, who are responsible for deciding the fate of a Chechen kid who allegedly murdered his adoptive father, a Russian army officer. But at the last minute of what will be a unanimous guilty vote, one man slowly raises his hand to vote “not guilty.” With this act of defiance, the captivating story of 12 slowly opens ...more

When a Russian youth is put on trial for the murder of his adoptive father, it's up to a room full of jurors divided by racism and prejudice to determine the boy's ultimate fate in director Nikita Mikhalkov's loose remake of Reginald Rose's 12 Angry Men. At the center of the storm is a broodingly silent foreman (Mikhalkov). As the deliberation grows increasingly tense, a racist Russian cabbie (Sergei Garmash) attempts to sway the vote of a well-dressed television producer (Yuri Stoyanov) by ...more