Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Language
- Russian
- Country
- Russia, Kazakhstan
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In Russian — subtitles on.
The story
Two Russian soldiers, one battle-seasoned and the other barely into his boots and uniform, are taken prisoner by an anxious Islamic father from a remote village hoping to trade them for his captured son.
- prisoner
- hostage
- mountain
- chechnya
- russian soldier
- based on short story
- caucasus
The bill
Oleg Menshikov
Sacha Kostylin
Sergei Bodrov Jr.
Ivan (Vanya) Zhilin
Jemal Sikharulidze
Abdul-Murat
Susanna Mekhraliyeva
Dina
- Aleksandr Bureyev — Hasan
- Valentina Fedotova — Zhilin's Mother
- Aleksei Zharkov — Maslov, the Russian Commander
- Pavel Lebeshev
- Valery Kostrin
- Directed
- Sergei Bodrov
Production
- Rating
- 6.6 / 10 · 69 ratings
- Studio
- Karavan
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