Nikita Mikhalkov
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Russian filmmaker Nikita Mikhalov went in the opposite direction by borrowing the blueprints from the 1957 Oscar-nominated classic "12 Angry Men" in this loose remake set in contemporary Moscow.
Russian director Nikita Makhalkov has created a riveting adaptation of 12 Angry Men, the 1957 American film directed by Sidney Lumet with a screenplay by Reginald Rose.
The title is shorter, but that's the only thing remotely diminished about 12, Nikita Mikhalkov's exuberantly Russian reworking of Reginald Rose's 1950s jury-room play, 12 Angry Men.
Take "12," an Eastern European rehashing of the 1957 courtroom thriller "12 Angry Men." Filmmaker Nikita Mikhalkov has expanded the fairly simple, but extremely effective, original story.
It's also a remake of a beloved American classic, Sidney Lumet's 12 Angry Men (1957) -- written by Reginald Rose -- which may not sit well with some cinephiles.
Unlike Sidney Lumet's 1957 movie adaptation of "12 Angry Men," which is shot in tense close-ups in a cramped room, Nikita Mikhalkov's "12" breathes and floats.
In the pantheon of great recent Russian works, Nikita Mikhalkov’s “Burnt by the Sun” makes for a good companion piece in the sense of violent undercurrents, but in texture and exploration of the human condition, the more ethereal and subtly complex “The Sacrifice” by the late, great Andrei Tarkovsky is a more apt specter of the beast.
In the pantheon of great recent Russian works, Burnt by the Sun makes for a good companion piece in its staid, violent undercurrents, but in texture and exploration of the human condition, the more ethereal and subtly complex The Sacrifice by the late, great Andrei Tarkovsky is a more apt specter of the beast.