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Country of the Deaf

1998-04-06 · 105 min · ★ 6.7

Drama · Comedy · Crime

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.

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Directors
Valery Todorovsky
Production companies
Compagnie des Films, Gorky Film Studios, Valery Todorovsky Production Company
Countries
France, Russia
Status
Released

Top Cast

Chulpan KhamatovaChulpan KhamatovaRita
Dina KorzunDina KorzunYaya
Maksim SukhanovMaksim SukhanovSvinya ("The Pig")
Nikita TyuninNikita TyuninAlyosha
Aleksandr YatskoAleksandr YatskoThe Albino
Sergey YushkevichSergey YushkevichNuna
Oleksiy HorbunovOleksiy HorbunovLandlord
Pavel PoymalovPavel PoymalovMao
Yaroslav BoykoYaroslav Boykobandit
Yunona Kareva
Ivan RyzhikovIvan Ryzhikov
Oleg KhatyushenkoOleg Khatyushenko
Yury SysoevYury Sysoev
Oleg ValkmanOleg Valkmanbandit
Maksim Koroptsov
Oleg FominOleg Fomin
Evklid KyurdzidisEvklid Kyurdzidis
Mergen NiyazovMergen Niyazov

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