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Originally released as a motion picture in 2007.

Director of photography, Vladislav Opeliants ; original music score, Edward Artemiev.

Sergey Makovetsky, Nikita Mikhalkov, Sergei Garmash, Valentin Gaft, Alexei Petrenko, Yuri Stoyanov, Sergey Gazarov, Mikhail Efremov, Alexei Gorbunov, Sergey Artsbashev, Victor Verzhbitsky, Roman Madyanov, Alexander Adarashian.

Set in contemporary Moscow where 12 men must decide the fate of a young man accused of murdering his step-father. Consigned to a makeshift jury room, one by one each man takes center stage to confront, connect, and confess while the accused awaits a verdict and revisits his heartbreaking journey through war in flashbacks.

MPAA rating: PG-13; for violent images, disturbing content, thematic material, brief sexual and drug references, and smoking.

DVD, region 1, widescreen (2.35:1); Dolby Digital 5.1.

This DVD disc is copy protected.

Russian dialogue, English or French subtitles.

Russia's Official Submission to the Best Foreign Language Film Category of the 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008), Audience award, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, 2008 ; Best music, Nika awards, 2008 ; Best actor, Best Actor, Sergey Garmash, Nika awards, 2007.