Pondering Prisoner Saeed Adyani Hostage to Film: Russian director Sergei Bodrov. A talk with Sergei Bodrov, director of 'Prisoner of the Mountains' By Richard von Busack Prisoner of the Mountains is a movie both remote and accessible: Remote in that it was filmed in the hills of Dagestan, deep in Central Asia (if a movie has been made there before, it's certainly never reached the U.S.); ...