House of Fools (2002) on Netflix
A psychiatric hospital near the Chechen border loses its staff as war closes in. Zhanna, a patient, believes a pop star is her fiancé and will come for her.
- Netflix2.8/5
- IMDb7.0/102,983 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes41%
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Plot summary
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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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about House of Fools (2002)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- House of Fools was partly inspired by the real tragedy of the psychiatric hospital in Shali, Chechnya: its staff abandoned the place during the Russian bombing campaign, and many patients afterwards died from attacks and neglect.
