The House That Swift Built Explained

The House That Swift Built
Cinematography:	Lev Bunin
Runtime:	138 minutes
Country:	Soviet Union
Language:	Russian

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

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)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Дом, который построил Свифт. Russia-K.
2. Web site: Фрагменты лучших кинофильмов Марка Захарова к юбилею режиссера. RIA Novosti.