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Released
2002 · FILM

House of Fools

“It's a mad, mad, mad world...”

Directed by
Andrei Konchalovsky
Written by
Andrei Konchalovsky
Runtime
104 min
Language
RU
DramaMusicRomance

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.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Olga GrinshpunShot by Sergei KozlovScored by Eduard ArtemyevDesigned by Lyubov Skorina

Box Office

2002 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$158K

Budget$2.5M
Worldwide gross$158K
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Das Irrenhausde
  • House of Foolsen
  • La casa de los engañoses
  • La Maison de fousfr
  • Dom Durakov - La casa dei mattiit

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