The House That Swift Built | |
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Directed by | Mark Zakharov |
Written by | Grigori Gorin |
Starring | Oleg Yankovsky Aleksandr Abdulov Vladimir Belousov Yevgeny Leonov |
Cinematography | Lev Bunin |
Music by | Gennady Gladkov |
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Release date |
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Running time | 138 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
The House That Swift Built (Russian: Дом, который построил Свифт, romanized: 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]
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Transcription
- FIRST OF ALL, THE TWO SONGS YOU'RE SINGING TODAY I LOVE. "OUT OF THE WOODS," I LOVE THAT SONG. - THANK YOU. [cheers and applause] WE'RE ALL VERY EXCITED. - I KNOW. THEY'RE VERY EXCITED. [cheers and applause] BECAUSE THIS IS VERY EXCITING. AND THE MIRACLE IS, IT HAS NOT LEAKED YET. THAT'S AMAZING. - NO, NOT-- NO, IT HASN'T, NOT REALLY. - THAT'S GREAT. - YEAH. I'M VERY EXCITED ABOUT IT. I MEAN, IT'S BEEN SOMETHING I'VE WANTED TO DO FOR A REALLY LONG TIME, AND I TOOK TWO YEARS TO MAKE IT. - AND YOU SHOULD BE EXCITED. IT'S A FANTASTIC-- THE ENTIRE THING. AND TO TAKE TWO YEARS OFF-- AND YOU'VE BEEN ON SUCH A ROLL, AND YET--I MEAN, "SHAKE IT OFF" IS SUCH A GREAT SONG AND SO CATCHY AND SO AMAZING THAT IT JUST WENT CRAZY. NOW "OUT OF THE WOODS"-- AND I THINK "ROLLING STONE" JUST GAVE IT A FOUR-STAR REVIEW. ISN'T THAT-- - YEAH. AND SAID A BUNCH OF NICE STUFF. - YES. - I WAS ALMOST CRYING. [cheers and applause] YEAH, THEY-- [cheers and applause] - [speaking indistinctly] - I DID. YEAH, IT HAPPENS TO THE BEST OF US. - YEAH, YEAH. FELL DOWN IN SOME WATER. - I DID. I FELL DOWN AND-- - THEN YOU GOT UP, AND THEN THEY TOOK-- - BUT YOU GET BACK UP. - YOU GET BACK UP. - AND YOU KEEP GOING WITH THE PHOTO SHOOT. THAT'S THE MESSAGE BEHIND THAT. - OH, NOW WE KNOW. - YEAH, IS TO PERSEVERE. - NOW WE KNOW. - YEAH. - SO YOU INVITED A BUNCH OF YOUR FANS TO YOUR HOUSE, CALLED THE SECRET SESSIONS. - YES. [cheers and applause] - YOU--SO YOU-- HOW DID YOU CHOOSE-- HOW MANY PEOPLE WENT? - OKAY, SO THIS WAS SOMETHING I KIND OF CAME UP WITH THE CONCEPT FOR BEFORE I WAS EVEN DONE WITH THE ALBUM. I JUST KNEW I WAS GONNA BE SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS RECORD THAT I WAS GOING TO WANT TO PLAY IT FOR THE FANS EARLY, AND THERE'S SO MANY PEOPLE WHO I HAD SEEN ON THE INTERNET, LIKE, WHO HAVE BEEN TO SO MANY SHOWS OR THEY'VE BEEN TO SOMETHING LIKE THIS OR THEY'VE WAITED AND HAVE NEVER MET ME BEFORE, AND THEY'VE BEEN SO INCREDIBLE. SO I WANTED TO DO SOMETHING SPECIFICALLY CATERED TOWARDS THOSE PEOPLE, AND THE MORE AND MORE I THOUGHT ABOUT IT, I KEPT AMPING IT UP. I KEPT BEING LIKE, "WELL, IT'LL JUST BE LIKE-- IT'LL JUST BE ONE LITTLE SECRET GATHERING," AND THEN I MADE IT, "OH, IT'LL BE AT MY HOUSE." AND I WAS LIKE, "OH, WE'LL DO IT AT ALL MY HOUSES." AND THEN SO IT ENDED UP BEING 89 PEOPLE IN L.A., 89 IN NASHVILLE, IN NEW YORK, RHODE ISLAND, AND IN LONDON. - WOW, AND HAD YOU HAD MORE HOUSES... [cheers and applause] MORE PEOPLE COULD COME SEE. - IF I--YES. SO WE'LL WORK ON THAT FOR NEXT TIME. - WOW. - BUT YEAH. WE WOULD SPEND JUST HOURS TOGETHER, ME PLAYING MY ALBUM FOR THEM ESSENTIALLY IN MY LIVING ROOM AND EXPLAINING TO THEM WHAT I WROTE IT ABOUT, AND THAT'S-- WELL, THAT'S HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE HEARD THE ENTIRE THING NOW, AND YOU CAN'T FIND ANY INFORMATION THEY'VE GIVEN ONLINE ABOUT IT. - THAT'S REALLY COOL. - YEAH. - THAT'S AMAZING. YOU HAVE GOOD FANS.
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