# "12": A Russian remake of "12 Angry Men"

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**Created:** [March 17, 2009, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/12-a-russian-remake-of-12-angry-men/489795 "2009-03-17T20:27:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![jharvey963](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/54ee81/32.png) [@jharvey963](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jharvey963)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/12-a-russian-remake-of-12-angry-men/489795/1 "2009-03-17T20:27:22Z")

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Did anyone else see the movie “12”? It’s a Russian movie set in present day and is a russified re-imagining of 12 Angry Men.

I saw it this weekend and really loved it. The movie was in Russian with English subtitles and 1 thing that surprised me was: all of the actors were REALLY good. The fact that I couldn’t understand their words didn’t detract from that impression.

There was also some heavy-handed symbolism that worked for me. (“heavy-handed” means “obvious enough that I saw and understood it”.) 🙂

Anyone else?

J.

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**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/12-a-russian-remake-of-12-angry-men/489795/2 "2009-03-17T21:06:56Z")

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> [@jharvey963](#):
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> I saw it this weekend and really loved it. The movie was in Russian with English subtitles and 1 thing that surprised me was: all of the actors were REALLY good.

Bah. Keifer Sutherland is twice as good as all of them put together.

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**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/12-a-russian-remake-of-12-angry-men/489795/3 "2009-03-17T23:34:15Z")

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I saw it quite a while ago, so I’ve somewhat forgotten what my opinion was. I think that while I basically liked it, I thought that they should have left it as a story about doing your duty as a juror. Instead it seemed to be a semi-random mishmash of the original story and the director/screenwriter’s personal views on the current state of Russia. I’d rather he chose to do one or the other, and if the latter to come up with a story that’s a bit more demonstrative and less bombastic.