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The Fool
MEANRANK
82/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #383
- IMDb #502
- Metacritic #423
- Letterboxd #573
- Metacritic Audience #554
- Kinopoisk #166
Every rating
Everyone agrees
Lowest is IMDb on 79, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 91.
See the most agreed on films →In a small Russian town rife with systemic corruption, a humble and idealistic municipal plumbing inspector discovers that a large, dilapidated apartment building is on the verge of collapse, threatening the lives of its 800 residents. He embarks on a frantic, all-night quest to alert the town's indifferent and cynical officials. His moral conviction clashes with the entrenched greed and apathy of the local bureaucracy, forcing him to make a stand for basic human decency against overwhelming odds.
Details
- Director
- Yury Bykov
- Writer
- Yury Bykov
- Studio
- Rock Films
- Released
- 9 August 2014
- Country
- Russia
- Language
- Russian
- Runtime
- 116 min
- Budget
- $1.3M
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