The House That Swift Built () is a 1982 Soviet fantasy comedy film directed by Mark Zakharov based on the eponymous play by Grigori Gorin about Irish satirist writer and Anglican priest Jonathan Swift.
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)