Aleksei Petrenko Biography

9.7 12 2007

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Crime, War

Artists: Aleksei Petrenko, Valentin Gaft, Sergey Garmash, Sergei Makovetsky

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 st ...

7.1 Tin Man Part I2007

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War

Director: Steven Long Mitchell, Craig Van Sickle

Artists: Donald Sumpter, Aleksei Petrenko, Len Cariou, Iain Glen

Continuing the storyline of The Gathering Storm, Churchill at War is a look at the former British prime minister's life and career at the end of WWII.