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Russian Resurrection 2008 - FESTIVAL PROGRAMME
Russian Resurrection - Russian Film Festival 2008
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Captive
Пленный

2008
War

Director
Alexei Uchitel

Starring
Vyacheslav Krikunov, Pyotr Logachev, Irakli Mskhalaia, Julia Peresild, Sergei Umanov, Andrei Feskov

Duration
77 minutes

Awards
Best Director
(2008 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)

Based on Vladimir Makanin's The Prisoner from the Caucasus (1995)

 Captive

From the director of The Stroll and Dreaming of Space, both Russian Resurrection favourites, comes Uchitel’s latest film.

Captive explores the folly of war in an intimate and startling way, focusing on the recent conflict in Chechnya.

The film opens with Russian soldiers under fire and trapped in the vast Chechen landscape, stifling in the heat, lost in hostile, alien surrounds. The handsome, laconic commander Rubakhin and the playful sniper Vovka need a guide to lead their convoy to safety. They seize a local, beautiful boy, who becomes their passport to safety, but must pay a terrible price. And his captors will not escape from the incident unscathed either....

There truly is no beauty in war.

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