Down House (film)

Down House Даун Хаус
Directed by	Roman Kachanov
Written by	Roman Kachanov Ivan Okhlobystin
Starring	Fyodor Bondarchuk Juozas Budraitis Ivan Okhlobystin Stanislav Duzhnikov Aleksey Panin Mikhail Petrovsky Mikhail Vladimirov Jerzy Stuhr Barbara Brylska Artemy Troitsky Olga Budina
Release date(s)	May 18, 2001
Running time	89 min.
Language	Russian

Down House (Russian:"Даун Хаус") is a 2001 Russian comedy-gross-out film by Roman Kachanov, a spoof parody on The Idiot novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

The plot is set in modern Moscow, probably in the second half of 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 (appeared in film as 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 Russian subcultures like e.g. businessmen, hackers and hippies, heavily using words borrowed from English and transliterated into Russian alphabet.

External links

• Down House at the Internet Movie Database
• RusFilm