
Paradise(2016)
The historical drama set during the Second World War centres on three people whose paths cross: a Russian aristocratic emigrant and member of the French resistance, a French collaborator and a high-ranking German SS officer.


“It's a mad, mad, mad world...”
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.

Yuliya Vysotskaya
Zhanna

Evgeny Mironov
Officer

Vladas Bagdonas
Doctor

Marina Politseymako
Vika

Anatoli Adoskin
Fucue
Sultan Islamov
Ahmed
Stanislav Varkki
Ali
Elena Fomina
Lucy

Bryan Adams
Self

Anatoli Zhuravlyov
Fighter
House of Fools is a drama, romance, war film released in 2002. Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, it stars Yuliya Vysotskaya, Evgeny Mironov, Vladas Bagdonas. 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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