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19 October 2002 | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »

MOSCOW -- Los Angeles-based Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky's Dom Durakov (House of Fools), winner of the Grand Jury Prize at this year's Venice festival, has been chosen as Russia's official submission for the Academy Awards. The film, which was picked up in September by Paramount Classics for U.S. distribution, narrowly beat Kukuschka (The Cuckoo) as the country's entry for the foreign language Oscar, members of Russia's academy of cinematography, arts and science said late Thursday in Moscow. Konchalovsky's film, based on a true story about inmates of a lunatic asylum caught up in the Chechen war after their doctors and nurses abandon them, was chosen after the selectors had "carefully studied American tastes and priorities" for Oscar nominees, said director Vladimir Menshov, head of the selection committee. »

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