Post-Soviet Russian Cinema

(Russia and Kazakhstan, 1996)

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 during the present-day conflict in Chechnya. A dashing soldier and a young recruit 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 his plan is defeated by the lackadaisical and inept bureaucracy of the Russian military.

Monday, October 13 at 7:30 p.m.

DeBartolo 349