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The House That Swift Built (Russian: Дом, который построил Свифт, romanized: Dom, kotoriy postroil Svift) is a 1982 Soviet fantasy comedy film directed by Mark Zakharov based on the eponymous play by Grigori Gorin about Irish satirist writer and Anglican priest Jonathan Swift.[1][2]

The House That Swift Built
Directed by	Mark Zakharov
Written by	Grigori Gorin
Starring	Oleg Yankovsky Aleksandr Abdulov Vladimir Belousov Yevgeny Leonov
Cinematography	Lev Bunin
Music by	Gennady Gladkov
Production company	Studio Ekran
Release date	1982 (1982)
Running time	138 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Plot

A doctor arrives at a mentally unstable house, looking to reveal the truth of a famous writer, Jonathan Swift. Swift is surrounded by actors playing out the life in the house, somehow causing his mental illness and even slightly lost his grip on reality (so do other people think). The summary of this challenging story to comprehend is that the movie is about coping mentally with what is actually going on around you.

Cast

• Oleg Yankovsky - Jonathan Swift
• Aleksandr Abdulov - Richard Simpson, Doctor
• Vladimir Belousov - Patrick, servant-secretary
• Yevgeny Leonov - Glum, the giant
• Marina Ignatova - Vanessa
• Alexandra Zakharova - Stella (Esther Johnson)
• Alexander Sirin - Mr. Someone, Struldbrugg
• Aleksandr Zbruyev - Relb, Lilliputian
• Nikolai Karachentsov - Flim, the Lilliputian
• Tatyana Rudina - Betty, wife of Relb
• Viktor Proskurin - Jack Smith, constable
• Yuri Astafiev - Constable
• Villor Kuznetsov - main Laputian
• Vsevolod Larionov - Bigs, the judge
• Semyon Farada - Governor
• Yuri Kolychev - Bishop
• Valery Belyakov - city dweller
• Vyacheslav Gorbunchikov - city dweller
• Evgeny Markov - participant of the meeting with the governor
• Vladimir Myshkin - city dweller
• Igor Fokin - spectator with binoculars
• Olegar Fedoro - Laputian
• Vladimir Fyodorov - dwarf with a gun (uncredited)

References

External links

The House That Swift Built at IMDb

На других языках

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- [en] The House That Swift Built

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[ru] Дом, который построил Свифт

«Дом, который построил Свифт» — советский художественный телефильм 1982 года режиссёра Марка Захарова по одноимённой пьесе Григория Горина. Фильм основан на реальных фактах из жизни Джонатана Свифта, хотя далёк от биографической точности. Поэтому пьеса Горина, по которой снят фильм, имеет подзаголовок «Театральная фантазия».

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