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Sidney Lumet's classic about jurors is set in modern-day Russia by director Nikita Mikhalkov

If you consider the Russian literary tradition, with its penchant for turning existentialism into a five-course meal, it's hard to think of many American films that would be a more appetizing choice for adaptation by Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov than "12 Angry Men," the 1957 drama that locked a jury in a room for a day to debate the fate of an alleged killer.
In "12," which Mikhalkov says is loosely based on the original Sidney Lumet film, (though I would argue cleaves more closely than he might imagine), the hours inside a makeshift jury room in modern-day Moscow are not wasted as far more than the murder in question is on the table. [...]

di Betsy Sharkey, articolo completo (3714 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 6 marzo 2009