12 (2007)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.9/10   

Director:

Nikita Mikhalkov

Escritores:

Nikita Mikhalkov (writer) &
Aleksandr Novototsky (writer) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

20 septiembre 2007 (Russia)

Género:

Crimen | Drama | Suspenso | Guerra

Plot:

12 jurors must decide the fate of a Chechen teenager charged with murdering his stepfather.

Plot Keywords:

School | Chechnya | Russia | Jury | Chechen War

Premios:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 3 wins & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Jury plays god to a man, Mikhalkov plays god to a jury

Reparto

Sergei Makovetsky
Sergey Garmash
Aleksei Petrenko
Yuriy Stoyanov
Sergei Gazarov
Nikita Mikhalkov
Mikhail Efremov
Valentin Gaft
Aleksey Gorbunov
Sergei Artsybashev
Viktor Verzhbitskiy
Roman Madyanov
Aleksandr Adabashyan
Apti Magamaev	...	The Boy
Abdi Magamayev	...	Little Chechen

También conocida como:

12 razgnevannyh muzhchin (Russia) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for violent images, disturbing content, thematic material, brief sexual and drug references, and smoking.

Duración:

159 min

País:

Russia

Idioma:

Ruso | Chechen

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

USA:PG-13 | Taiwan:R-12 | Netherlands:12 | Canada:14A (Ontario) | Canada:PG (British Columbia)

Locaciones de Filmación:

Mosfilm Studios, Moscow, Russia

Compañía:

Studio Trite

Trivialidades:

Yuriy Stoyanov's character (the guy "from" Harvard) shows the picture of his mom to the cemetery director. In fact it's Youri himself on the photo in female dress and make-up. Picture is taken from the TV-show _"Reklamnaya pauza" (2006) (TV mini-series)_ playing the character "Gorobov" which made him a star.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en The 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008) (TV)

Jury plays god to a man, Mikhalkov plays god to a jury

The movie is bipolar. The upsides: great performances by many great actors; a view that the movie provides into the minds of contemporary Russians; and watching 12 post-post-Soviet (yet born and raised Soviet) people engaged in the a very Western activity, where their universal human feelings are intermixed with ways of thinking and arguing that are skewed by the history and problems of Russian society. Having characters give monologues in a single-room setting works very well for the theatrically-trained actors. Also, the discussion of society's problems and human responsibilities is refreshingly serious, in a big contrast to most post-Soviet expression, which tends to be extremely cynical (as argued quiet well by Efremov's character).

Downsides: certain characters are shallow caricatures clearly used to express Mikhalkov's personal tastes; way too many stretches in the plot; and the ending/punchline. Mikhalkov turns everything on its head in the end, very unconvincingly trying to argue that "freedom is slavery" and negating any civic benefit that the movie could have. This argument is basically a restatement of his political goals, most recently expressed off-screen by an open letter to Putin in the name of "all Russian artists" begging him to stay another term. Ironically, the argument is presented so weakly and crudely that Mikhalkov ends up shooting himself in a foot.