Country of the Deaf (1998)
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.
Director: Valery Todorovsky
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Chulpan Khamatova as Rita |
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Dina Korzun as Yaya |
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Maksim Sukhanov as Svinya ("The Pig") |
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Nikita Tyunin as Alyosha |
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Aleksandr Yatsko as The Albino |
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Sergey Yushkevich as Nuna |
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Oleksiy Horbunov as Landlord |
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Pavel Poymalov as Mao |
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Yaroslav Boyko as bandit |
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Yunona Kareva as |
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Ivan Ryzhikov as |
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Oleg Khatyushenko as |
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Yury Sysoev as |
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Oleg Valkman as bandit |
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Maksim Koroptsov as |
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Oleg Fomin as |
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Evklid Kyurdzidis as |
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Mergen Niyazov as |
| Directing | Valery Todorovsky | Director |
| Writing | Renata Litvinova | Novel |
| Writing | Valery Todorovsky | Writer |
| Writing | Yuri Korotkov | Writer |
| Art | Sergey Ivanov | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Aleksandr Osipov | Costume Design |
| Production | Ilya Neretin | Producer |
| Editing | Natalya Kucherenko | Editor |
| Camera | Yuriy Shaygardanov | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Irina Tretyakova | Assistant Director |
| Crew | Valeriy Derkach | Stunt Coordinator |
| Sound | Gleb Kravetsky | Sound Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Elena Ivanova | Makeup Artist |
| Production | Sergey Livnev | Producer |
| Sound | Alexei Aigui | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Irina Tretyakova | Editor |