Summaries

In the midst of the Chechen War, a remote psychiatric institution is left without staff leaving the patients to fend for themselves. Based on a true story.

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.—Roza Thompson

Psychiatric patients become entrenched in the Chechen War after the staff split to find them a safer hospital. Soldiers take over the asylum, and then, um, a young female patient falls in love with soldier, which leaves her boyfriend, Bryan Adams, in a lurch. Based on a true story.—Anonymous

Details

Keywords
  • soldier
  • russia
  • patient
  • chechen
  • falling down stairs in a wheelchair
Genres
  • Drama
  • Romance
  • War
  • Music
Release date Dec 5, 2002
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) R
Countries of origin France Russia
Language Russian Chechen
Production companies Bac Films Hachette Première Persona

Box office

Budget $2500000
Gross US & Canada $57862
Opening weekend US & Canada $7246
Gross worldwide $157613

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 44m
Color Color
Sound mix Dolby Digital
Aspect ratio 1.85 : 1

Synopsis

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