House of Fools (2002)
Original title: Дом дураков
House of Fools is a 2002 Russian-language drama movie directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, with a running time of 1h 44m. It stars Yuliya Vysotskaya, Evgeny Mironov and Vladas Bagdonas.
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.
Cast
- Yuliya Vysotskaya as Zhanna
- Evgeny Mironov as Officer
- Vladas Bagdonas as Doctor
- Marina Politseymako as Vika
- Anatoli Adoskin as Fucue
- Sultan Islamov as Ahmed
- Stanislav Varkki as Ali
- Elena Fomina as Lucy
- Bryan Adams as Self
- Anatoli Zhuravlyov as Fighter
- Armen Davidyants as Insane man
- Rasmi Dzhabrailov as Makhmud