Anatoli Adoskin, Bryan Adams, Marina Politsejmako
A true story about the patients of a Russian psychiatric asylum (in Caucasus, on the Chechnyan border) who become involved with the Chechen War after their doctors, nurses and attendants abandon them....( read more
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DVD Release Date: October 28, 2003
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February 15, 2007A very cliched view of a mental hospital that happens to get caught up in the Russian-Chechen war. Occasionally amusing war humour and an impressive helicopter crash is all this movie has to offer.
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March 29, 2008Powerful, thought provoking, intense, surreal, and disturbing. This film is fantastically bizarre and I really need to give it another viewing.
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November 7, 2007I just caught this film on the television for the last half or so, but I really enjoyed what I saw. Janna and her fellow fools offer a strange sort of humour that makes this "war film" a bit more human and light-hearted.
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August 23, 2007it is almost surreal a russian film can be so friendly towards the chechen matter.... it is a bit chaotic and the fools are rather stereotypical, but you know....the whole life is a house of fools. especially war...
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Critic Reviews
June 13, 2003
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
May 16, 2003
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
A film that succeeds not by arguing that the world is crazier than the asylum, but by arriving at the melancholy possibility that both are equally insane. full review
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