Set in a mental institution near Chechnya, Andrei Konchalovsky's "Dom durakov" - "House of Fools" in English - indirectly poses the question of whether the real insanity lies inside or outside the mental institution. It does have a plot fairly similar to "King of Hearts" (the staff flees and leaves the patients, who then have to deal with the surrounding war). By the time that this came out, I don't know how long it had been since Konchalovsky had directed a movie in his native Russia - in the United States, he had directed "Runaway Train" and "Shy People" - but this was an OK return for him (though far from the best Russian movie that I've ever seen).
And the Porky Pig cartoon? It was 1947's "Little Orphan Airedale", the first appearance of Charlie Dog (the pushy canine who always tries to get Porky to adopt him as a pet). At the end of the cartoon, Charlie's other friend decides that life is screwy on the outside, and so the final scene shows him trying to get back into the dog pound! Maybe that's a little more like "King of Hearts", but they all question where the real insanity lies (I guess that "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" also does).
Does anybody know whether or not Yulia Vysotskaya is related to Vladimir Vysotsky?
And the Porky Pig cartoon? It was 1947's "Little Orphan Airedale", the first appearance of Charlie Dog (the pushy canine who always tries to get Porky to adopt him as a pet). At the end of the cartoon, Charlie's other friend decides that life is screwy on the outside, and so the final scene shows him trying to get back into the dog pound! Maybe that's a little more like "King of Hearts", but they all question where the real insanity lies (I guess that "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" also does).
Does anybody know whether or not Yulia Vysotskaya is related to Vladimir Vysotsky?