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Country of the Deaf
Strana Glukhikh is about an unusual relationship between two women, one of them a deaf-mute dancer and the other on the run from the mafia. Yaya, the deaf girl, offers to hide Rita whose boyfriend, Alyosha owes gambling debts to the mafia, but in return she wants her to leave the young man and run off with her to an imaginary paradise where material values do not exist.
| Release : | 1998 |
| Rating : | 7.4 |
| Studio : | Compagnie des Films, Valery Todorovsky Production Company, Gorky Film Studios, |
| Crew : | Production Design, Director of Photography, |
| Cast : | Chulpan Khamatova Dina Korzun Maksim Sukhanov Nikita Tyunin Aleksandr Yatsko |
| Genre : | Drama Comedy Crime |
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Reviews
Wonderful Movie
Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.
I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
the poetry of this beautiful film remains the most important fact after its final credits. like a form of flavor. like an old fashion Russian drama. the second - the inspired performances of the lead actresses. and the slices of contemporary Russia discovered from perfect angle. a story from the East. like many others. maybe, to theatrical. but useful eulogy of small things who defines use. like friendship and hope and help. like the words as bridges. like the choice who must be for define the truth. a beautiful film. or a touching one. and the frame for delicate memories.
"Country of the Deaf" is one of the best Russian movies of 90's. Also it is a rare example of the movie dedicated to the discovery of the subculture of deaf people in modern Russian society.Valery Todorovsky has created tense, fast, sometimes violent movie with deep characters. It is not only about loneliness, love and hate of deaf people. It is about all of us - about the post-soviet generation.And of course, Chulpan Hamatova, Dina Korzun and Maksim Sukhanov are great (as usually) - Russian actor's school continues to be one of the major ones in the world.
This film is more than it appears at first glance. Various themes are weaved together to produce a beautiful picture of the relationship between the two leading female characters. The criminal sphere in Moscow is only fraction of the movie and anyone who enjoys a good intellectual drama will find Todorovsky's adaptation of Renata Litvinova's "To Have and To Belong" an absorbing find.
This is exactly the kind of film that is being made in the crime-infested present day Russia. The dialog is so primitive as if it was written by semi-literate people, the acting is uniformly awful and grotesque. The whole allegory about the land of the deaf is laughable. The characters are so annoying you wish them all dead as soon as possible. What a terrible waste of celluloid.
