Prisoner of the Mountains
Updated June 26, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
| Director: | Sergei Bodrov |
| Writers: | Arif Aliev, Sergei Bodrov and Boris Giller |
| Director of Photography: | Pavel Lebeshev |
| Editors: | Olga Grinshpun, Vera Kruglova and Alan Baril |
| Music: | Leonid Desyatnikov |
| Producers: | Boris Giller and Sergei Bodrov |
| Orion Classics; R; 98 minutes | |
| Release: | 1/97 |
| Cast: | Oleg Menshikov, Sergei Bodrov, Jr., Jamal Sihouralidze and Susanna Mekhraliyeva |
| Based on Prisoner of the Caucasus by Leo Tolstoy | |
| In Russian with English subtitles |
Though written 150 years ago, the conflicts in Russia remain the same, almost as if no time has passed. Set in a Muslim village tucked away in the Caucasus Mountains, two Russian soldiers, a seasoned veteran, Sacha (Menshikov), and a new recruit, Vanya (Bodrov, Jr.), are taken hostage by Chechens. The Chechen chieftain, Abdoul-Mourat (Sihouralidze) says he will release Vanya in exchange for his son, whom the Russians hold prisoner. During the protracted negotiations, Sacha and Vanya develop a bond between themselves and also with their captors, especially the young, flirtatious Dina (Mekhraliyeva). A moving portrait of the complexity and brutality of war.
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