Prisoner of the Mountains
by Sergei Bodrov
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Actor: Aleksandr Bureyev, Jemal Sikharulidze, Oleg Menshikov, Sergei Bodrov Jr., Susanna MekhraliyevaDirector: Sergei Bodrov
Cinematographer: Pavel Lebeshev
Producer: Sergei Bodrov
Writer: Sergei Bodrov
Producer: Boris Giller
Writer: Boris Giller
Producer: Carolyn Cavallero
Producer: Eduard Krapivsky
Writer: Arif Aliyev
Writer: Leo Tolstoy
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: Russian (Original Language), Analog; Turkish (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Original recording reissued, Subtitled
Running Time: 99 minutes
Release Date: 2000-10-03
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
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Movie Review: Marvelous acting by Menshikov
Summary: 5 Stars
It was hard to expect from any such a humanistic, unbiased movie of epic reach, given the history and blood weary relations in Caucasus. War movie that does not fall flat in combat scenes, landscape that does not sweeten the movie but enhances the story, complex dark relations not judged but honestly presented. Impossible to expect such a movie from Putin's Russia, check recent "9th Company" by Bondarchuk, which is identical to customary hi-tech Hollywood "patriotic" crap. Prisoner of the Mountains is the rare treat in any national cinematography.
Summary of Prisoner of the Mountains
There's a beautiful irony in the way that the most specific war tales are often the most universal. Set high in the imposing, isolated Caucasus mountains, where the 20th century meets ancient lifestyles, Sergei Bodrov's drama of the Chechyn war finds two opposing cultures locked in conflict for so long that the reasons seem moot. Young Russian grunt Vanya (Sergei Bodrov Jr., the director's son) and his jaded veteran Sergeant (Burnt by the Sun's Oleg Menshikov) survive an ambush by Chechyn guerrillas and wind up hostages of a village elder, a war-weary widower who has lost almost everything to fighting and wants merely to swap them for his POW son. Bodrov's humanism is directed with empathy and stirred with harsh realism--he takes no sides and offers no fantasies of happy endings, only small miracles of kindness that refuse to be swallowed in the destruction and mistrust. --Sean AxmakerArt House & International VHS Video
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