War

War

War

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War

2002

2h 0m

6.8(105 votes)

War

Drama

Overview

During the bloody war in Chechnya, a British couple and two Russian soldiers are taken hostage by Chechen rebels. Two of the hostages are then released to bring the money for the British woman who is forced to wait for the ransom.

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10 featured cast members

Starring

Aleksey Chadov

Aleksey Chadov

Ivan

Ian Kelly

Ian Kelly

John

Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė

Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė

Margaret

Sergei Bodrov Jr.

Sergei Bodrov Jr.

Captain Medvedev

Yuri Stepanov

Yuri Stepanov

Aleksandr Matrosov

Evklid Kyurdzidis

Evklid Kyurdzidis

Ruslan

Vladimir Gostyukhin

Vladimir Gostyukhin

Ivan's Father

Irina Sokolova

Irina Sokolova

Sergey Shemarkin

Viktoriya Smirnova

Viktoriya Smirnova

Katya

Creative team

Directed by: Aleksei Balabanov
Written by: Aleksei Balabanov
Produced by: Sergei Selyanov
Irina Pavlova

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