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From Russia With Mercy

12 is a stunning revision of a classic American film.

By Ralph Seliger

Amidst the numerous wars and anarchic bloodletting and misery in Africa, the ethnic slaughters in the former Yugoslavia and the ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan—not to mention between Israelis and Arabs—it is easy to forget what has transpired recently between Russians and Chechens. The landscape of devastation is searingly rendered in 12, a loose Russian-language adaptation of Twelve Angry Men.… return to article

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