House of Fools (2002)

Original title

Дом дураков

Directed by

Andrei Konchalovsky

Genre

drama film, war film, comedy drama, romance film

Country

Russia

Runtime

1h 44m

Rated

12+

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 51 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

During the First Chechen War, patients in a psychiatric hospital and nearby soldiers interact in unusual ways. The film blends black humor with horrific war scenes and psychological tension.

bizarredarkly comicdisturbingtouchinganti-warunsettlingsurrealtragicomic

What happens

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. Distinctly anti-war and controversial in Russia, House of Fools is a bizarre blend of black comedy, touching drama, horrific warfare and subtly disturbing psychological content. The film was screened in the competition at the 59th Venice International Film Festival and won Grand Special Jury Prize and UNICEF Award and was also selected as the Russian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 77th Academy Awards, but it didn't make the final shortlist. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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