Masked figures with machine guns march into the secondary school in Karatas, take the pupils hostage, and execute one of them. They make no demands. Silent terror is their modus operandi. Seeing as the army will take two days to arrive due to a snowstorm, maths teacher Tazshi decides to assemble his own assault team: his ex-wife, the gym teacher, the cowardly school principal, an alcoholic night watchman, the village idiot, and an incompetent chief of police.
What follows is no traditional action film, but a thriller with snatches of comedy, in which the enemy isn’t hidden behind masks, but is in the minds of the liberators. Before they act, they have to overcome their personal demons. Comparisons to the school hostage-takings in Beslan and Kazan are obvious, yet Karatas – the mythical village where much of director Adilkhan Yerzhanov’s work is set – could be anywhere. It is universally acknowledged that crises bring out people's true natures.
罗伯特·德尼罗,塞巴斯蒂安·马尼斯科,莱丝莉·比伯,金·凯特罗尔,大卫·拉斯彻,安德雷斯·霍尔姆,布瑞特·迪尔,阿丹·詹姆斯·卡里略,劳拉·奥尔特,科尔比·辛恩,杰西·卡马乔,安德烈埃·加内特,安娜·纳瓦罗,克里斯·海斯,卡拉·克里斯蒂娜·孔特雷拉斯,迈克尔·斯图尔特,黛博拉·塔克,乔纳森·凡·奈斯,格里芬·胡德
刘思维,史元庭,邢瀚,任学海,刘秦杉,张大宝,王旭东,赵梓冲,刘春霞
Alexandre Bacon,Nancy Bernier,Jeff Boudreault,Wyatt Bowen,Benoît Brière,马克·卡马乔
曾志伟,沈殿霞,郭昶,黄霑,余文乐,蒋怡,苏志丹,虎艳芬,彭新智,丁玲
马特·狄龙,诺亚·艾默里奇,安娜贝丝·吉什,蒂莫西·赫顿,罗伦·荷莉,罗茜·欧唐内,娜塔莉·波特曼,米拉·索维诺,迈克尔·拉帕波特,乌玛·瑟曼,玛莎·普林顿
布鲁斯·邓恩,威尔·福特,朱恩·斯奎布,鲍勃·奥登科克,斯泰西·基齐,玛丽·路易丝·威尔逊,兰斯·霍华德,蒂姆·德里斯科尔,戴文·雷特瑞,安吉拉·迈克伊万,格伦多拉·斯蒂特,伊丽莎白·穆尔,凯文·孔克尔,丹尼斯·麦科伊格,罗纳德·沃斯塔,米茜·多蒂