"Prisoner of the Mountains"
1996
Directed by Sergei Bodrov

Here is a film that gives us every reason to watch a film with subtitles.  When would most of us have a chance to walk through the narrow winding streets of a remote village in the Caucasus Mountains, or to look over the fruit peddler's stand from within the ancient walls of a Kazakstan city?   Based on a short story by Leo Tolstoy and filmed within 20 miles of the actual fighting, this tale about two Russian prisoners of war could have been set in Tolstoy's day (150 years ago), but had no problem conforming to the contemporary setting, proving that nothing has really changed.  99 minutes.