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House of Fools (Russian: Дом дураков, Dom durakov) is a 2002 Russian film by Andrei Konchalovsky about psychiatric patients and combatants during the First Chechen War. It stars Julia Vysotskaya and Sultan Islamov and features a number of cameo appearances by Bryan Adams , with the music composed by Eduard Artemyev .
Dec 6, 2002 · House of Fools: Directed by Andrey Konchalovskiy. With Yuliya Vysotskaya, Evgeniy Mironov, Sultan Islamov, Stanislav Varkki. In the midst of the Chechen War, a remote psychiatric institution is left without staff leaving the patients to fend for themselves.
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- Drama, Music, Romance
- Andrey Konchalovskiy
- 2002-12-06
May 16, 2003 · A movie based on a true story of a mental asylum in Chechnya, where the inmates run the place during the war and dream of love and escape. Roger Ebert praises the film's authenticity, courage and use of Bryan Adams as a symbol of imagination.
House of Fools has a potentially intriguing fact-based story to tell, but an insensitive approach to depicting mental illness undermines its effectiveness. Read Critics Reviews
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- Andrey Konchalovskiy
- R
- Sultan Islamov
House of Fools is a striking and hauntingly beautiful film that captures the essence of the human experience and the fragile nature of sanity. Set in a psychiatric institution in war-torn Chechnya, the movie tells the story of a group of patients who are left to fend for themselves when their doctor and the rest of the staff abandon the ...
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- Andrei Konchalovsky
- R
Dec 6, 2002 · Play Trailer. It's a mad, mad, mad world... 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.
House of Fools (Russian: Дом дураков, Dom durakov) is a 2002 Russian film by Andrei Konchalovsky about psychiatric patients and combatants during the First Chechen War. It stars Julia Vysotskaya and Sultan Islamov and features a number of cameo appearances by Bryan Adams, with the music composed...
