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12

2007 · 159 min

A claustrophobic, dialogue-heavy chamber piece that builds tension through moral argument and raw confession, punctuated by harrowing flashbacks.

Directed by
Nikita Mikhalkov
Genres
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Starring
Sergey Makovetskiy, Nikita Mikhalkov, Sergey Garmash
Overview
A loose remake of “12 Angry Men”, “12” is set in contemporary Moscow where 12 very different men must unanimously decide the fate of a young Chechen accused of murdering his step-father, a Russian army officer. Consigned to a makeshift jury room in a school gymnasium, one by one each man takes center stage to confront, connect, and confess while the accused awaits a verdict and revisits his heartbreaking journey through war in flashbacks.

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Directed by
Nikita Mikhalkov
Genres
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Starring
Sergey Makovetskiy, Nikita Mikhalkov, Sergey Garmash
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Tone
  • tensestrength 3 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • justice
  • race
  • war
  • guilt
  • redemption
Places
  • school
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • single location
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour2
Realism7
Romance0
Tension8
Darkness7
Complexity7
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
crime, drama, mystery
Directed by
Nikita Mikhalkov
Written by
Aleksandr Novototskiy-Vlasov, Vladimir Moiseenko, Nikita Mikhalkov
Starring
Sergey Makovetskiy, Nikita Mikhalkov, Sergey Garmash, Valentin Gaft, Aleksey Petrenko, Yuriy Stoyanov, Sergey Gazarov, Mikhail Efremov
Music
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Cinematography
Vladislav Opelyants
Runtime
159 min
Country
Russia
Languages
Chechen, Russian

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