Das Experiment director Oliver Hirschbiegel teams with
City of God screenwriter Braulio Mantovani for this dramatization of the 2004 siege of a Russian elementary school by armed Chechen rebels. A grueling, three-day ordeal that commanded the attention of the entire world, the bloody siege in Beslan would, when all the smoke cleared, leave 300 people, including thirty-one terrorists, dead. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide