House of Fools
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| House of Fools (Dom durakov) | |
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 Psychiatric patients become entrenched in the Chechen War after the staff split to find them a safer hospital |
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| Directed by | Andrei Konchalovsky |
| Written by | Andrei Konchalovsky |
| Starring | Yuliya Vysotskaya |
| Release date(s) | 2002 |
| Running time | 104 mins |
| Language | Russian |
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House of Fools or (Russian: Dom durakov, Дом дураков) is a 2002 Russian film about psychiatric patients during the Chechen war. It stars Yuliya Vysotskaya, Yevgeni Mironov and features a number of cameo appearances by Bryan Adams playing hallucinations of himself. It received a rating of 38/100 on Rotten tomatoes counting 47 reviews. [1]
The film tells the story of a psychiatric hospital on the border between Russia and Chechnya during the second conflict of 1996. With the medical staff vanishing to apparently find help, the hospital's patients are left to run amok, but Janna, an eccentric young woman who lives in the belief that the pop star Bryan Adams is her fiancé, curbs their insanity. Blissfully unaware of the terror of the war, the patients stick it out in the hospital, whose "guests" vary between Chechen rebels and Russian troopers. Distinctly anti-war, unbiased and controversial in Russia, House of Fools is a bizarre blend of black comedy, touching drama, horrific warfare and subtly disturbing psychological content.
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