Acclaimed Russian drama centred on a humble plumber who discovers a serious fault in a dorm with 800 inhabitants. The...
Acclaimed Russian drama centred on a humble plumber who discovers a serious fault in a dorm with 800 inhabitants. The building needs to be evacuated immediately, but a system of corrupt bureaucrats stonewall his call for action.
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93 %14 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
91 %221 reviewsAudience score rating
"Writer-director Yury Bykov delivers another major work, this one even more deserving of international attention..."
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Variety
Variety"Wraps its Hobbesian vision of squalor around a fable worthy of Frank Capra, but twisted to suggest a cruel inversion of Capra's inspirational allegories of humble Everymen crusading for justice and democratic ideals."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"A wonderfully constructed film that takes a subtle-yet-angry swipe at the state of modern Russia."
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Screen Daily
Screen Daily"Extremely bleak and depressing even by Russian standards, the third film of writer-director Yury Bykov, The Fool (Durak), is also his best."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"The dialogue is broadly generalized, urgently on point, and bracing in its undisguised diagnostic fury. If you can accept its unabashed didacticism, The Fool plays crisply."
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A.V. Club
A.V. ClubThe Fool | Details
- Runtime
- 116
- Genre
- Drama
- Country of origin
- Russia
