12 (2007)

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Nikita Mikhalkov’s “12,” inspired by “12 Angry Men,” examines post-Soviet Russia. In the foreground, Mr. Mikhalkov, as the jury foreman, watches Alexey Petrenko, as a transit worker, speak.
March 4, 2009
They, the Jury
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Published: March 4, 2009

In “12,” Nikita Mikhalkov’s grandiloquent remake of “12 Angry Men,” the elements of that modest courtroom classic have been enlarged to operatic dimensions. In this modern interpretation, directed by Mr. Mikhalkov, whose 1994 movie, “Burnt by the Sun,” won an Academy Award for best foreign-language film, the clashes among 12 Muscovites charged with determining the guilt or innocence of a young man accused of murder form a composite portrait of post-Soviet Russia. More