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.
吉安卡罗·埃斯波西托,何塞·祖尼加,斯蒂芬·格维顿,哈威·凯特尔,杰瑞德·哈里斯,威廉·赫特,Daniel Auster,哈罗德·佩里诺,迪尔德丽·奥康奈尔,维克多·阿尔果,米歇尔·赫斯特,福里斯特·惠特克,斯托卡特·詹宁,Vincenzo Amelia,Erica Gimpel,艾什莉·贾德,Mary B. Ward,Mel Gorham,Baxter Harris,马利克·约巴,Clarice Taylor