

House of Fools
2002-12-06 · 104 min · ★ 5.9
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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Production details
- 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 VysotskayaZhanna
Evgeny MironovOfficer
Vladas BagdonasDoctor
Marina PolitseymakoVika
Anatoli AdoskinFucue
Bryan AdamsSelf
Anatoli ZhuravlyovFighter
Armen DavidyantsInsane man
Rasmi DzhabrailovMakhmud
Anatoli AdoskinFuko
Cecilie ThomsenLithuanian sniper
Aleksandr SeleznyovFyodor the Drunk
Magomed ZurabovAfghani
Yuriy DumchevKvas
Ivan GrishanovSoldier
Aleksandr KhovanskiyLieutenant
Pavel ShuvayevSoldierTitle information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.
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