Prisoner of the Mountains

Kavkazskiy plennik

Russia

1996

99 Min

Color

1.85:1

Russian, Turkish, Georgian, Chechen

Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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DIR Sergei Bodrov

CAST Oleg Menchikov, Sergei Bodrov Jr., Susanna Mekhraliyeva, Dzhemal Sikharulidze, Aleksandr Bureyev, Valentina Fedotova, Aleksei Zharkov, Pavel Lebeshev

Synopsis

When an oddball pair of Russian soldiers are captured and taken prisoner by a Chechen father who hopes to barter the soldiers for the release of his captive son, the two hostages begin to develop an unexpected — and humorous — bond of friendship. This film, which is directed and co-written by Sergei Bodrov, was inspired by the Leo Tolstoy novella Prisoner of the Caucasus;. Oleg Menchikov stars as Sacha and Sergei Bodrov Jr. as Vanya.

Director

Sergei Bodrov

Sergei Vladimirovich Bodrov (Russian: Серге́й Влади́мирович Бодро́в; born June 28, 1948) is a two-time Academy Award-nominated Russian-American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

Bodrov was born in Khabarovsk, Russian SFSR, USSR (now Russia). In the post-Soviet period he emigrated to the United States. His son, actor Sergei Bodrov, Jr. was killed in an avalanche in the mountains of the North Caucasus on September 20, 2002 while shooting his film which was tentatively titled The Messenger.

Bodrov’s grandmother was ethnic Buryat which influenced his decision to film the movie Mongol.

Bodrov currently has an apartment in Los Angeles and a ranch in Arizona. He is married to American film consultant Carolyn Cavallaro. —Wikipedia