Kavkazskiĭ plennik [videorecording] = Prisoner of the mountains / Mosfilm-Kopor ; AO "Karavan" ; BG Prodakshn ; pri uchastii Komiteta Rossiĭskoĭ Federat͡sii po Kinematografii ; Boris Giller predstavli͡aet ; v filmʹ me Sergeĭ Bodrov ; avtory st͡enariĭa, Arif Aliev, Sergeĭ Bodrov, Boris Giller ; prodĭusery, Boris Giller, Sergeĭ Bodrov ; rezhisser, Sergeĭ Bodrov.
Oleg Menshikov, Sergei Bodrov, Jr., Djemal Sikharulidze, Susanna Mekhralieva, Alexander Bureev, Valentina Fedotova, Alexei Jarkov. Originally produced as motion picture in 1996. Based on the novella by Leo Tolstoy.
Summary:
A Russian army patrol is ambushed by Caucasian rebels and two survivors are taken prisoner, by a local patriarch who is hoping to barter them for the release of his captured son. A bond of understanding develops between the soldiers and their captors, but it is broken when plans for their release go awry and a chain of violence and retaliation is precipitated.
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