翻拍自1957年Sidney Lumet的12 angry men。 一个车臣男孩被指控谋杀自己俄罗斯军官的养父,所有证人和证据均对他不利,12位陪审团成员对此展开了讨论,他们将决定男孩今后的命运。 12名陪审员来自不同的行业,不同的种族。刚开始的时候,每个人心不在焉, 对这起案件并不在乎,除了一个物理研究员之外,他们都认为男孩有罪。但是,物理研究员唤起了其他11个人对生命的尊重,他们开始认真讨论这起案件,讲述各自生活中的故事和经历,在决定男孩命运的同时,也审视自己的内心世界。 最终,当他们达成一致意见的时候,陪审团主持人(Nikita Mikhalkov 饰)的决定却出乎意料……A loose remake of 12 Angry Men (1957), set in a Russian school. 12 jurors are struggling to decide the fate of a Chechen teenager who allegedly killed his Russian stepfather who took the teenager to live with him in Moscow during the Chechen War in which teenager lost his parents. The jurors: a racist taxi-driver, a suspicious doctor, a vacillating TV producer, a Holocaust survivor, a flamboyant musician, a cemetery manager, and others represent the fragmented society of modern day Russia. A stray bird (a touch of New Age cinema) is flying above the jurors' heads, alluding to tolerance.