Summary:

12
Original title: 12
Year: 2007
Country: Russia
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov

The film “12” was made in 2007 by Russian director Nikita Mijalkov on the 50th anniversary of the release of “Twelve Angry Men” by Sidney Lumet. It is the deliberation of a jury of twelve men who must decide on the guilt or not of a young man accused of patricide. The original scene set in New York in the 1950s is transferred to Russia in the new millennium. Just as Mijalkov’s gaze supplements Lumet’s work, Ariel’s reading displays and enhances three dimensions of the decision: the initial option, the reflective deliberation, the crossing of the fantasy and the act of deciding.

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