Prisoner of the Mountains 1996 123movies

Watch: Кавказский пленник 1996 123movies, Full Movie Online – Based upon a short story by Leo Tolstoy, two Russian soldiers, Sacha and Vania, are ambushed by Muslim rebels in the grandly forbidding Caucasus and taken prisoner. Although complete understanding never fully emerges, their bittersweet ordeal reveals the human soul of two vastly different cultures..
Plot: 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.
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Ratings:

	7.5/10 Votes: 4,543
	88% | RottenTomatoes
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	N/A Votes: 44 Popularity: 4.352 | TMDB

Reviews:

strong, warm and humane
There are probably a lot of prejudices people have against Russian film. Mine were gone after I had seen this one.

“Kavkazskij plennik” is a film about a youth who’s being sent to Chechnya to fight for the Russian army. He’s together with another Russian soldier being captured in Chechnya by an older Chechnyan man who wants to change them for his own son, who’s is being held by the Russians. There being locked into an old house high among the Caucasian mountains. Soon a friendship develops between them and young girl who brings them food and water.

This movie was made after and during the last months of the first Chechnyan war. Everybody’s a victim and there is nothing to win in this war, specially for the Russians. It is just a matter of how much you lose. The persons in this film do not hate each other because their fighting on different sides. The Chechnyans probably hates what these Russian soldiers represent, but they know that this war isn’t caused by these two Russians. They are both just a small, meaningless part of it. Russia does not give a damn about their lives, probably because it’s leaders have lost the humane touch, while calculating their offensives. Lives have been reduced into numbers on white sheet. But there are people who care, even among the “enemies”. Normal people still show respect for humanity.

The rhythm of the movie is great, it leaves the viewer enough time to think and also find the deeper thoughts from the movie. The music is well selected too, I just cant get that tune out of my head. This together with a realistic humane aspect gives this movie a strong pacifistic tune. Definitely worth to take a look at.

This movie had a different effect on me
As other have commented, the movie tries to apply a relatively even hand to both sides of the chechen conflict, possibly being a little more biased to the chechen point of view. What surprised me about this movie was that I came out of it more supportive of the Russian side of the conflict. Let me explain: Lets say you are a American living in present day Wyoming. Now imagine if there still existed unassimilated cheyenne indians in the area living out their old traditions and who would still periodically conduct war parties and scalp and kill anyone they found who was not a part of their tribe. If you are living in Wyoming, taking trips outside urbanized areas becomes quite harrowing. Such conditions would make one lose one’s fascination of Indian culture quite rapidly.

Present day conditions in the Caucauses are not so much different than the hypothetical example given above. These traditional Islamic cultures can be extraordinarily savage and haven’t progressed much in the last 1000 years. The only current technology they have embraced is that which allows them to kill more people.

The movie is well written and directed. It does try to be as honest as humanly possible with the subject matter. As a result, one is not preached to and allowed to make up their own mind, which is very rare in film.

Other Information:

Original Language ru
Runtime 1 hr 39 min (99 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 890078
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, War
Director Sergei Bodrov
Writer Arif Aliev, Sergei Bodrov, Boris Giller
Actors Oleg Menshikov, Sergey Bodrov, Susanna Mekhraliyeva
Country Russia, Kazakhstan
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 14 wins & 6 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 2,704 m (Sweden), 2,762 m
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman EXR 200T 5293)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm