Country of the Deaf (1998)

movie

(1552)

Country: France, Russia
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Release: 1999-07-21
Director: Valeriy Todorovskiy
Writers: Yuriy Korotkov (I) , Renata Litvinova , Valeriy Todorovskiy
Language: Russian | Russian Sign
Stars: Chulpan Khamatova , Dina Korzun , Maksim Sukhanov , Nikita Tyunin , Aleksandr Yatsko , Aleksey Gorbunov , Pavel Poymalov , Sergey Yushkevich , Alexey Diakov , Andrei Dubovsky
Runtime: 105 min
Awards: 8 wins & 9 nominations
AKA: Les silencieuses (Canada) , Horis iho (Greece) , Süketek földje (Hungary) , Kurčiųjų šalis (Lithuania) , Страна глухих (Russian Federation) , Country of the Deaf , Country of the Deaf (United States of America) , Les silencieuses (France, French Republic) , Country of the Deaf (United Kingdom) , Kraina głuchych (Poland) , The Country of Deaf People , Strana glukhikh
Plot:
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.
IMDB:tt0143907