The read
Critics rate it 13 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
Two Russian soldiers, one battle-seasoned and the other barely into his boots and uniform, are taken prisoner by an anxious Islamic father from a remote village hoping to trade them for his captured son.
Ratings
IMDb7.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes88%
Critics rate it 13 points higher than audiences do.
71 audience votes
Key crew
- Sergei BodrovWriter
- Boris GillerWriter
- Arif AlievWriter
- Sergei Bodrov Jr.Writer
- Leonid DesyatnikovOriginal Music Composer
- Sergei BodrovDirector
Cast
- Oleg MenshikovSacha Kostylin
- Sergei Bodrov Jr.Ivan (Vanya) Zhilin
- Jemal SikharulidzeAbdul-Murat
- Susanna MekhraliyevaDina
- Aleksandr BureyevHasan
- Valentina FedotovaZhilin's Mother
- Aleksei ZharkovMaslov, the Russian Commander
- Pavel LebeshevCast
- Valery KostrinCast
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Themes
prisonerhostagemountainchechnyarussian soldierbased on short storycaucasus