Country of the Deaf | |
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Directed by | Valery Todorovsky |
Written by |
Yuriy Korotkov Renata Litvinova Valery Todorovsky |
Produced by |
Sergey Chliyants Sergey Livnev Ilya Neretin |
Starring |
Chulpan Khamatova Dina Korzun |
Cinematography | Yuri Shajgardanov |
Music by | Alexey Aygi |
Release date |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
Country | Russia |
Languages | Russian Sign language |
Country of the Deaf ( Russian: Страна глухих, romanized: Strana glukhikh) is a 1998 Russian crime film directed by Valery Todorovsky, loosely based on Renata Litvinova's novel To Own and Belong. [1] The film set in a fictional underworld of deaf-mute people in Moscow. The film was entered into the 48th Berlin International Film Festival. [2]
The action takes place in Moscow in the 1990s. The heroine of the film – Rita – is forced into hiding; her friend Alyosha has disappeared after losing someone else's money in a game of roulette. She is rescued and hidden by Yaya, a deaf nightclub dancer, who lives only for one thing – to save money and go to some fabulous "country of the deaf," where only deaf people live, and virtue and justice reign. Suddenly, the girls find themselves in the center of a violent clash between two mafia clans – one hearing and one deaf.
At the 1998 Russian Guild of Film Critics Awards the film was awarded the prizes for Best Film, Best Music (Alexey Aygi), Best Female Actor ( Dina Korzun), Best Supporting Actor ( Maksim Sukhanov). [3] At the Nika Award the film received the prizes for Best Female Actor (Dina Korzun) and Best Sound Design (Gleb Kravetsky). [4]