Country of the Deaf

(1998)

★ 6.8 IMDb · 31 votes

Genres: Drama, Comedy, Crime

Year: 1998

Runtime: 105 мин

Country: France, Russia

Director: Валерий Тодоровский

Cast: Чулпан Хаматова, Дина Корзун, Максим Суханов, Никита Тюнин, Александр Яцко, Сергей Юшкевич, Алексей Горбунов, Павел Поймалов, Ярослав Бойко, Юнона Карева

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.