War (2002)

Directors

Aleksei Balabanov

Cast

Aleksey Chadov, Euclid Kyurdzidis, Giorgi Gurgulia, Ian Kelly, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, Irina Sokolova, Lev Erenburg, Sergey Bodrov, Jr., Viktor Smirnov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Yuri Stepanov

The story

The story is told from the perspective of former conscript Ivan Yermakov (Alexei Chadov), a defendant in a pre-trial detention facility who is giving an interview to a journalist. As he begins recounting his story, the film cuts to Chechnya in the summer of 2001, during the Second Chechen War. Being held captive by Chechen warlord Aslan Gugayev (Georgy Gurguliya), Ivan serves as a domestic slave and Aslan's communications specialist, since Ivan graduated from a computer school and speaks English.

Genres

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