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House of Fools

House of Fools

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 6, 2002

Runtime

1h 44m

Genres

Drama, Romance, War

User Score

59%

Original Title

Дом дураков

Production Companies

Bac Films, Persona, Hachette Première

Director

Andrei Konchalovsky

Budget

$2,500,000

Revenue

$157,613

Description

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.