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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 .
Andrei Konchalovsky's "House of Fools" begins with ominous signs that it will be yet another recycling of simple fools, angelic heroines and Baked Potatoes, with the familiar moral that it's the outside world that's crazy. It doesn't help that the movie is "based on a true story."
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
List. 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. TOP CRITIC ...
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- Andrey Konchalovskiy
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- Sultan Islamov
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Apr 25, 2003 · A superbly shot film of emotional extravagance, sentimentality and even humor, House of Fools is a film that is ultimately quite moving but which probably could only have been pulled off by a director steeped in that famous Russian soul.
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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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