| Brief Description: | A tightly executed moral drama of love and war, Sergei Bodrov's
Academy Award-nominated film is based on Tolstoy's classic tale and
set in the remote, austerely beautiful Caucasus mountains. Sacha, the
dashing soldier (Russian heartthrob Oleg Menshikov, Burnt by the Sun),
and the young recruit Vania (Sergei Bodrov, Jr.) are captured by a
Chechen father who holds them hostage in his village home. The father
attempts a prisoner exchange for his son, who is held by the Russian
army, but is defeated by lackadaisical and inept bureaucracy of the
military. As the two Russians await their fate, a love gradually
develops between Vania and their captor's daughter. Russian with
English subtitles. |
