Down House (2001)

Original title

Даун Хаус

Directed by

Roman Kachanov

Genre

comedy drama, crime film, black comedy film

Country

Russia

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

16+

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 65 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a modern Russian retelling of Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot, presented as a crude comedy. A naive and good-hearted man returns to society and gets involved with a complicated family and their schemes.

absurdsatiricaldarkly comicfast-pacedgrotesqueoffbeatirreverentchaotic

What happens

Down House (Russian: Даун Хаус, romanized: Daun khaus) is a 2001 Russian comedy-gross-out film by Roman Kachanov, a modern interpretation of the 1869 novel The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The film received the Special Jury Prize at Kinotavr. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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