12

• 72   Metascore
• 2007
• 2 hr 33 mins
• Drama, Suspense
• PG13

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Nikita Mikhalkov directed and also plays the jury foreman in this captivating update of the classic courtroom drama "12 Angry Men." This version is set in contemporary Russia, where a Chechen youth is on trial for killing his adoptive Russian father. Apti Magamayev is mesmerizing as the accused. Mikhalkov co-wrote the screenplay with Vladimir Moiseyenko and Alexander Novostky, who manage to insightfully maintain the original's powerful themes of racism and prejudice. Sergei Garmash.