Country of the Deaf

Country of the Deaf
Directed byValery Todorovsky
Written byYuriy Korotkov
Renata Litvinova
Valery Todorovsky
Produced bySergey Chliyants
Sergey Livnev
Ilya Neretin
StarringChulpan Khamatova
Dina Korzun
CinematographyYuri Shajgardanov
Music byAlexey Aygi
Release date
  • February 1998 (1998-02)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryRussia
LanguagesRussian
Sign language

Country of the Deaf (Russian: Страна глухих, romanizedStrana glukhikh) is a 1998 Russian crime film directed by Valery Todorovsky, loosely based on Renata Litvinova's novel To Own and Belong.[1] The film set in a fictional underworld of deaf-mute people in Moscow. The film was entered into the 48th Berlin International Film Festival.[2]

  1. ^ "Страна глухих". Encyclopedia of Russian Cinema. Archived from the original on 13 February 2018. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  2. ^ "Berlinale: 1998 Programme". berlinale.de. Retrieved 22 January 2012.