Prisoner of the Mountains Movie Review 1996

A modern-day, freely adapted version of Leo Tolstoy's novella "Prisoner of the Caucasus." Two Russian soldiers find themselves taken hostage in a remote Muslim village high in the Caucasus Mountains. Their captor, Abdul-Mourant (Sikharulidze), wishes to exchange them for his own captive son. Seasoned veteran Sacha (Menshikov) and young recruit Vanya (Bodrov Jr.) slowly form a bond, not only with each other but gradually with their captors. But there's a tragic inevitability to the entire untenable situation. Russian with subtitles.

Distribution

Orion Home Video, MGM, 2500 Broadway, 3515, Santa Monica, CA 90404-3036, Phone: (310)449-3000, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on VHS
Running time 98 minutes.
Originally from Russian.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Anti-War War Movies, War, General, Russia/USSR, Books to Film: Leo Tolstoy, Military: Foreign

Screenplay

Sergei Bodrov, Arif Aliev, Boris Giller

Cast

Sergei Bodrov, Oleg Menshikov, Djemal Sikharulidze, Susanna Mekhralieva, Alexander Burejev, Alexei Zharkov, Valentina Fedotova

Cinematography

Pavel Lebeshev

Director

Sergei Bodrov

Music

Leonid Desyatnikov

Producer

Boris Giller, Sergei Bodrov, Orion Pictures