Watch: Дурак 2014 123movies, Full Movie Online – The Fool is a movie about a simple plumber. An honest man, he is up against an entire system of corrupted bureaucrats. At stake are the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dorm that is at risk of collapsing within the span of the night. Dima Nikitin is a simple and honest guy, a foreman of a repair team at a provincial housing service. Nothing really makes him stand out among the rest. It’s only the unusual combination of honesty and integrity that makes others perceive him as somewhat weird.In the little town there is a notorious dorm, inhabited mainly by drunkards and outcasts. One night the pipes burst at the dorm. After arriving at the scene, Nikitin discovers that things are way more serious – the building will not stand through the night. People need to be evacuated immediately. Fighting the red tape, Nikitin sets off on a night Odyssey around the town authorities..
Plot: The Fool is a movie about a simple plumber. An honest man, he is up against an entire system of corrupted bureaucrats. At stake are the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dorm that is at risk of collapsing within the span of the night.
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Durak (2014 – Yuriy Bykov): ****1/2
The setup is fairly simple, during a violet domestic dispute about stolen money that serves as the film’s prologue, a water pipe bursts. The whole scene underscores what is to come: a tale of a corrupt society teetering on the brink of disaster socially, economically and politically.The hero of the film, Dima, the “durak” (fool) of the title of the film, is a bright young plumber on the way up in the world. After inspecting the damage, he soon realises that the burst pipe is merely evidence of a much larger issue: the entire block of flats is falling apart and will do so in 24 hours. While this should have been rectified during regular renovations of the building, the funds to do so were skimmed off the top by the local head of the housing organisation.
In response, Dima goes right to the very top of the provincial town in an attempt to save the lives of the occupants. Is anyone going to be motivated to act, however, if they have already been bleeding the system dry until now? Perhaps covering their own backs will prove the only motivation.
A brilliant film: one where you truly don’t know whether to laugh or cry. From my time in Ukraine though, I dread just how accurate this slice of modern small town Russian life is.
Dostoevsky’s “The Idiot” in today’s Russia
The Russian film Durak (2014/II) was shown in the U.S. with the title “The Fool.” Yuriy Bykov was the writer and director. The overall theme is consistent with Dostoevsky’s “The Idiot.” In that novel, Prince Lyov Nikolayevich Myshkin is an honest, kind, helpful person. No once can believe that anyone could truly be this good, and that’s why the call him an idiot.In a small Russian city, Syn Dimy (played by Gordey Kobzev) is also an honest, kind, helpful person, and no one respects him for it. He’s a low- ranking foreman of a municipal plumbing repair crew. Syn discovers that one of the municipal housing units is about to collapse. He reports this to the authorities, but no one wants to hear it.
In a previous film by Bykov–The Major–we learned that the police department was a cesspool of corruption. In The Fool, we learn that the entire municipal system is based on corruption. Everyone is on the take. No one really cares about the 820 people in the building. The only question is how to continue in positions of power and affluence after the building collapses.
This is a brilliant, but very grim film. There’s no humor in it. We saw it in the excellent Dryden Theatre at The George Eastman Museum in Rochester, NY. It’s primarily set indoors–in the night club where the mayor is celebrating her 50th birthday, or in the doomed building, which houses very poor, very angry people. It will work well on the small screen. It’s a movie you don’t want to miss. Find it an see it.
Original Language ru
Runtime 1 hr 56 min (116 min)
Budget 1300005
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated N/A
Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director Yuriy Bykov
Writer Yuriy Bykov
Actors Artyom Bystrov, Natalya Surkova, Yuriy Tsurilo
Country Russia
Awards 18 wins & 14 nominations
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Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
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