House of Fools

House of Fools

2002 · 104 min · RU · 6.0 (40 votes)
Dir. Andrei Konchalovsky · Starring Yuliya Vysotskaya, Evgeny Mironov, Vladas Bagdonas, Marina Politseymako, Anatoli Adoskin, Sultan Islamov · Music Eduard Artemyev

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

DramaRomanceWar

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.

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A darkly comedic, yet deeply human look at finding connection and purpose amidst chaos. It's about the enduring spirit of those navigating illness and war, finding moments of joy in the most unlikely of places.

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