THE HOUSE OF FOOLS
synopsis
Cechnya 1996. Janna is a patient in a psychiatric unit on the Russian border where chaos breaks out after the staff abandon the hospital. The patients are free to organise their lives and some decide to leave but the awful sounds of war stop them in their tracks.
international title: | The House of Fools |
original title: | Dom Durakov |
country: | France, Russia |
sales agent: | Roissy Films |
year: | 2002 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Andrey Konchalovskiy |
film run: | 104' |
release date: | IT 31/01/2003, EE 21/03/2003, FR 06/08/2003, NO 22/08/2003, BE 15/10/2003, GR 14/11/2003 |
screenplay: | Andrey Konchalovskiy |
cast: | Bryan Adams, Julija Vysotskij, Sultan Islamov, Evgenij Mironov, Stanislav Varkki, Elena Fomina |
cinematography by: | Sergueï Kozlov |
film editing: | Olga Grinšpun |
art director: | Lioubov Skorina |
costumes designer: | Svetlana Walter |
music: | Edouard Artemiev |
producer: | René Cleitman, Jean- Philippe Labadie, Andrey Konchalovskiy, Felix Kleiman |
production: | BAC Films, Persona (RU) |
distributor: | BAC Films, Baltic Development Group (EE), Arthaus (NO), Istituto Luce (IT), Art Free (GR) |