Captive (Russian: Пленный, romanized: Plenyy) is a 2008 Russian-Bulgarian film by Alexei Uchitel on the novel by Vladimir Makanin, Caucasian Captive. The working title of the film was also Caucasian Captive.^[1]

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Russian	Пленный
Directed by	Alexei Uchitel
Written by	Vladimir Makanin Timofei Dekin
Produced by	Alexei Uchitel
Starring	Vyacheslav Krikunov Peter Logachev Irakli Mskhalaia Yulia Peresild Raisa Gichaeva
Cinematography	Yuri Klimenko
Music by	Leonid Desyatnikov
Production companies	TPO Rock Camera Studio
Release date	September 5, 2008 (2008-09-05)
Running time	80 minutes
Countries	Russia Bulgaria
Languages	Russian Chechen

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Premiere of the film took place September 5, 2008 in St. Petersburg.^[2] The Russian film movie came out September 11, 2008.^[3]

The film takes place in the summer of 2000, during the Chechen War. Two Russian soldiers are instructed to call for help for the army column that fell under fire and left unattended. During the assignment, they take a prisoner of the Chechen youth Jamal. Apparently unadapted for the burdens of war, the young man evokes sympathy from the elder of the soldiers, Rubakhin. As a result of a failed exchange of prisoners of war in a Chechen village, soldiers are forced to hide in thickets surrounded by companies of militants seeking Jamal, and Rubakhin is forced to strangle a Chechen boy to stop his attempts to attract attention.

Among other awards and nominations in international film festivals, the film was nominated for the Crystal Globe at the 43rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and Alexei Uchitel won the Best Director Award for it.

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