FILM REVIEW - CAPTIVE

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Based on Vladimir Makanin's The Prisoner from the Caucasus CAPTIVE focuses on the folly of war in an intimate, startling way. In modern times, the Russian soldiers are trapped in the vast Chechen landscape, stifling in the heat, lost in hostile, alien surrounds. The handsome, laconic commander Rubakhin and the playful sniper Vovka need a guide to lead their convoy to safety. They seize a local, beautiful boy, who becomes their passport to safety, but must pay a terrible price. And his captors will not escap
Best film-directing on the International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary-2008, Bronze Camera 300 at Manaki Brothers IFF, The Main Prize for thу Best Film and the Dialogue Prize at FilmFestival Cottbus, Critic’s Choice award at Russian Resurrection FF in Australia, Bely Slon Russian Critic’s Award for Yury Klimenko.