DVD Release Date: July 14, 2009
Length: 159 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for violent images, disturbing content, thematic material, brief sexual and drug references, and smoking
Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film, this Russian drama is a remake of Sidney Lumet's 1957 classic 12 Angry Men. In 12 a jury must decide the fate of a Chechen teenager charged with the murder of his adoptive father, who was Russian. At first 11 jurors vote to find the defendant guilty, but one — the Henry Fonda character in the Lumet film — insists they reconsider. In the Russian movie, the jury is put inside a rundown high school gymnasium to do their deliberations, and at one point a sparrow flies in from outside and flutters about haplessly.
Selected DVD Special Features:
- Anamorphic Widescreen
- Subtitles
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