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Prisoner of the Mountains
Director: Sergi Bodrov
Cast: Oleg Menshikov, Sergei Bodrov Jr, Aleksei Zharkov, Susanna Mekhraliyeva, Jemal Sikharulidze, Valentina Fedotova
Russia / Kazakhstan (1998)
Runtime: 98 mins
Prisoner of the Mountains represents a balanced and telling examination of the absurdity of war. The film concerns two Russian soldiers held captive in a Muslim village in the Caucasus. Held as ransom for the village leader’s prisoner son, the soldiers bond with each other and begin to form tentative, and always potentially tragic, friendships with the villagers. The film was nominated for the Oscar Award and for the Golden Globes Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
