Prisoner of the Mountains (Kavkazskiy plennik)

Mon Feb 21, 2011

20:30

Location

Othellos Theater
19 Thessalonikis
Limassol, Limassol 3025

Limassol Cine Club
Phone: 25745112

Description

Based upon a short story by Leo Tolstoy, two Russian soldiers, Sasha and Vania, are ambushed and made prisoners of war by a group of Chechens. The old man Abdul-Murat wants to exchange them by his last son, who was arrested by the Russian troops. His other two sons were killed by the Russians, and his family is composed only by his teenager daughter Dina and himself. Although complete understanding never fully emerges, the soldiers' bittersweet ordeal reveals the human soul of two vastly different cultures.

Cast:
Oleg Menshikov (Sasha Kostylin)
Sergey Bodrov Jr. (Vanya Zhilin)
Jemal Sikharulidze (Abdul-Murat)
Susanna Mekhraliyeva (Dina)

Director: Sergey Bodrov
Writer: Arif Aliyev, Sergey Bodrov, Boris Giller
Runtime: 99 min
Genre: Drama, War
Language: Russian, Chechen
Production Year: 1996

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