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.
曾毅,周奇,孙艺洲,柳岩,王玉雯,王迅,张智超,许吴彬,赵海燕,范明,吴军,蒋诗萌,张磊,李栋,雷淞然,董宝石,庞博,符龙飞,张一鸣,肖央,王太利,孟鹤堂,曹鹤阳,印小天,张晓谦,黄曦彦
陈丽贞,程旭辉,莫小玲,柳胜美,姚懿珊,林俊良,阳光可乐,张水发,程家颉,黄振隆
李先时,訾富尔,刘昊东,李冲,康轩
普提蓬·阿萨拉塔纳功,克里特·安努艾德奇康,雅拉查芃·普金帕可,皮亚马斯·莫尼亚库尔,贾图隆·蓬布,鲁萨米凯·法格伦德,塔纳瓦·乔瓦拉姆
郑合惠子,左凌峰,贾冰,刘同,郝瀚,李勤勤,任正斌,张晗,叶泉希,马旭东,张维伊,郭阳,郭亮,刘坤,邓帅,叶浏,尹贝希,常诚,尤宪超