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
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Russian (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 99 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-07-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Prisoner of the Mountains
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
Two Russian soldiers - a fresh recruit named Vanya and a hardened veteran named Sacha - are taken hostage by Chechen guerillas after a deadly ambush leaves all of their comrades dead. Their captor a battle-weary village elder wants to use them as a bartering tool to get back his own son held prisoner by the Russian army. But when the trade goes sour and all trust is broken Vanya and Sacha realize their hours are numbered and attempt to escape before they're forced to join their comrades in death.System Requirements:Starring: Sergei Bodrov Jr. Susanna Mekhralieva Oleg Menshikov Djemal Sikharulidze Directed By: Sergei Bodrov Running Time: 99 Min. Color Copyright 2003 MGM Studios.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA Rating:?R UPC:?027616887498 Manufacturer No:?1004708There'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 Axmaker
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