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Audiences rate it 18 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
Rotten Tomatoes41%
Metacritic52/100
Audiences rate it 18 points higher than critics do.
53 audience votes
Key crew
- Andrei KonchalovskyScreenplay
- Andrei KonchalovskyDirector
- Eduard ArtemyevOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Yuliya VysotskayaZhanna
- Evgeny MironovOfficer
- Vladas BagdonasDoctor
- Marina PolitseymakoVika
- Anatoli AdoskinFucue
- Sultan IslamovAhmed
- Stanislav VarkkiAli
- Elena FominaLucy
- Bryan AdamsSelf
- Anatoli ZhuravlyovFighter
- Armen DavidyantsInsane man
- Rasmi DzhabrailovMakhmud