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.

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Prisoner of the Mountains

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.

Aleksandr Bureyev

Valentina Fedotova

Susanna Mekhraliyeva

Sergei Bodrov

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Lev Tolstoy

Boris Giller

T. Kibyev

Jemal Sikharulidze

Aleksey Zharkov

Oleg Menshikov

Pavel Lebeshev

Arif Aliev

Valeri Kostrin

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