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House of Fools

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"It's a mad, mad, mad world..."

Duration

1h 44m

Release

6 Dec 2002

Country

Russia

Language

Russian

Overview

The war film that's not a war film. A film about the mental institution which backdrop is the Chechen war. A story about the patients living in an institution during the war on the border of Chechnia and Russia during the war. The patients have to continue living their day to day life after being invaded twice over, and they have to deal with their sicknesses.

Plot

In the midst of the Chechen War, a remote psychiatric institution is left without staff leaving the patients to fend for themselves. Based on a true story.

Cast

Yuliya VysotskayaSultan IslamovBryan Adams

Ratings

Internet Movie Database: 7.0/10Rotten Tomatoes: 41%Metacritic: 52/100

Details

Director

Andrey Konchalovskiy

Writers

Andrey Konchalovskiy

Revenue

$157,613

Budget

$2,500,000

Awards

4 wins & 6 nominations

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