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House of Fools
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House of Fools

2002-12-06 · 104 min · ★ 5.9

Drama · Romance · War

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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Directors
Andrei Konchalovsky
Production companies
Bac Films, Persona, Hachette Première
Countries
France, Russia
Status
Released
Budget
USD 2,500,000
Revenue
USD 157,613

Top Cast

Yuliya VysotskayaYuliya VysotskayaZhanna
Evgeny MironovEvgeny MironovOfficer
Vladas BagdonasVladas BagdonasDoctor
Marina PolitseymakoMarina PolitseymakoVika
Anatoli AdoskinAnatoli AdoskinFucue
Sultan IslamovAhmed
Stanislav VarkkiAli
Elena FominaLucy
Bryan AdamsBryan AdamsSelf
Anatoli ZhuravlyovAnatoli ZhuravlyovFighter
Armen DavidyantsArmen DavidyantsInsane man
Rasmi DzhabrailovRasmi DzhabrailovMakhmud
Anatoli AdoskinAnatoli AdoskinFuko
Cecilie ThomsenCecilie ThomsenLithuanian sniper
Aleksandr SeleznyovAleksandr SeleznyovFyodor the Drunk
Magomed ZurabovMagomed ZurabovAfghani
Yuriy DumchevYuriy DumchevKvas
Ivan GrishanovIvan GrishanovSoldier
Aleksandr KhovanskiyAleksandr KhovanskiyLieutenant
Pavel ShuvayevPavel ShuvayevSoldier

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