House of Fools
It's a mad, mad, mad world...
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12/6/2002Runtime
104 minsOverview
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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ReleasedOriginal Language
RussianBudget
$2,500,000Revenue
$157,613Homepage
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A darkly surreal portrait of human resilience and fragile connections within a psychiatric hospital caught between two invading armies. The war becomes the setting for intimate stories about vulnerability, coping, and finding meaning amid chaos.
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