The House That Swift Built

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

Plot
The outstanding British writer Jonathan Swift is one of the most mysterious writers of the late XVII - early XVIII centuries, the author of the famous book "Gulliver's Journey" and sharp satirical pamphlets. In his will, dean Swift left the money and the house in favor of the mentally ill.

The fictional characters from Swift's works - Lilliputians, giants, Yehu, Huigngnms - inhabit the house that Swift built (O. Yankovsky). Reality here is closely intertwined with fiction, objects are transformed from one to another, and it is no longer possible to understand where the real events are, and where is the hoax or fantasy of the satirist. For treatment, a psychiatrist, Dr. Simpson (A. Abdulov) is sent to Swift.

The film is based on real facts from the life of Jonathan Swift, although it is far from biographical accuracy. Therefore, Gorin’s play, on which the film was shot, has the subtitle “Theater Fantasy”.

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 - Someone
 * Aleksandr Zbruyev - Relb, Lilliputian
 * Nikolai Karachentsov - Flim, the Lilliputian
 * Tatyana Rudina - Betty, wife of Relb
 * Victor 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)