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A loose remake of 12 Angry Men (1957), set in a Russian school. 12 jurors are struggling to decide the fate of a Chechen teenager who allegedly killed his Russian stepfather. Stepfather took teenager to live with him to Moscow, during Chechnya war, in which teenager lost his parents. The jurors: a racist taxi-driver, a suspicious doctor, a vacillating TV producer, a Holocaust survivor, a flamboyant musician, a cemetery manager, and others represent the fragmented society of modern day Russia.A stray bird (a touch of New Age cinema) is flying above the jurors' heads, alluding to tolerance.

Actors: Sergei Makovetsky , Sergey Garmash , Aleksei Petrenko , Yuriy Stoyanov , Sergei Gazarov , Nikita Mikhalkov , Mikhail Yefremov , Valentin Gaft , Aleksey Gorbunov , Sergei Artsybashev , Viktor Verzhbitskiy , Roman Madyanov , Aleksandr Adabashyan , Apti Magamaev .