Country: Tadzhikistan
Year: 1996
Duration: 95'
War rages in the Caucasus. Two wounded Russian soldiers are taken to a mountain village by a Chechen, Abdul-Murat, who hopes to exchange them against his son, made prisoner by the Russian army. While the two soldiers attempt to escape, one is killed. The exchange can no longer take place, all the more since Abdul-Murat's son was also shot dead during a collective escape from the prison he was kept in. The surviving young Russian soldier is kept in chains in a deep hole. Abdul-Murat's daughter, who has fallen in love with him, tries desperately to help him out. The girl knows that her father, urged by the village people, is about to kill him.
Biography
film director
Sergej Bodrov
Sergej Bodrov (Smakova village, 1948) graduated in screenwriting from the Pansoviet Film Institute (VGIK) in 1975. He worked extensively as a journalist and wrote numerous screenplays before becoming a director. In 1987 his Neprofessionaly won the prize of the jury at tha fifth Turin Film Festival. He is currently working in his own country and abroad, as exemplified by his collaboration in Alexander Rockwell's film, Somebody to Love, which he co-produced and wrote the screenplay for.
FILMOGRAFIA
Sladkij sok vnutri travy (co-regia, 1984), Ja tebja nenavizu! (I Hate You!, 1986), Neprofessionaly (Nonprofessionals, 1987), S.E.R. - Svoboda eta rai (La liberta è il paradiso, 1989), Katala (The Gambler, 1990), The Man on Red Square (Tv, 1991), White King, Red Queen (1992), Ya khotela uvidet angelov (I Wanted to See Angels, 1992), Kavkazski plennik (Prisoner of the Mountains, 1996).
Cast
& Credits
Screenplay: Sergej Bodrov, Arif Aliev, Boris Giller.
Director of photography: Pavel Lebesev.
Art director: Valerij Kostrin.
Editor: Olga Grinspun, Vera Kruglova, Alain Baril.
Music: Leonid Desjatnikov.
Sound: Ekaterina Popova-Evans.
Cast and characters: Oleg Mensikov (Saga), Sergej Bodrov jr (Vanja), Djernal Sikharulidze (Abdul-Murat), Susanna Mekhralieva (Dina), Aleksej Zharkov (il capitano), Valentina Fedotova (la madre).
Producer: Boris Giller.
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Director of photography: Pavel Lebes
Art director: Valerij Kostrin.
Editor: Olga Grins
Music: Leonid Desjatnikov.
Sound: Ekaterina Popova-Evans.
Cast and characters: Oleg Mens
Producer: Boris Giller.
