12 (2007)
Directed by Nikita Mikhalkov
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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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.