Durakovo: Village of Fools

(Durakovo: Le village des fous)

  • Nino Kirtadze
    Nino Kirtadze & Michael Guillen in Conversation
awards

World Cinema Directing Award, Sundance Film Festival 2008

featuring

A. E. Matthews, Ray Enright, Jumpei Yasui,

An eye-opening documentary shot on the grounds of Durakovo, a “rehabilitation” center outside Moscow. In this gated compound, autocratic leader Mikhail Fyodorovich Morosov lords over the residents, ostensibly helping them gain skills for modern-day society. In his words, he “shapes a new man for a new Russia.” Some initiates have submitted themselves to his indoctrination techniques, while others have been brought to the center by concerned family members. In this microcosm, we see a frightening locus for oppressive behavior and Russian nationalism. Kirtadze’s portrait of life at Durakovo is a metaphor for where Russian leadership is heading today.

FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Nino Kirtadze
Editor
  • Nobuaki Minegishi
Music
  • Fujii Nakaya
Language
  • Bengali
  • German
  • Greek, Modern
Print Info
  • Color
  • DigiBeta
  • Silent