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2001 film by Roman Kachanov
Down House
(
Russian
:
Даун Хаус
,
romanized
:
Daun khaus
) is a 2001 Russian
comedy
-
gross-out film
by
Roman Kachanov
, a modern interpretation of the 1869 novel
The Idiot
by
Fyodor Dostoevsky
.
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The film received the Special Jury Prize at
Kinotavr
.
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The plot is set in modern
Moscow
, probably in the second half of the 1990s, with "
New Russians
",
Hummer H1
jeeps, bribery, violence, truckfuls of tinned stew as a dowry, and so on. The film is quite far from the novel's subject, but still keeps to the main storyline. It features
Fyodor Bondarchuk
as Myshkin, and a soundtrack by
DJ Groove
, one of the most popular Russian
DJs
(who appears in the film as a taxi driver).
In Russian,
Даун
(Down) primarily refers to a person with
Down syndrome
, or, colloquially, to anyone retarded or just stupid, so it is similar to Idiot; while
Хаус
(House) refers to
House music
, which is used extensively in the film. The name is also a reference to the tendency of Russian subcultures such as
businessmen
,
hackers
and
hippies
to make heavy use of words borrowed from
English
and transliterated into the
Russian alphabet
.
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