Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: film tells story of psychiatric hospital in Russian republic of Ingushetia, Fact2: Zhanna is sort of ad keeper of peace happiness and control of others, Fact3: patients stick out Blissfully unaware of terror of war it in hospital, Fact4: guests include group of Chechen rebels, Fact5: Vysotskaya with help of prepares for marriage to Ahmed fellow residents
Output (English): The film tells the story of a psychiatric hospital in the Russian republic of Ingushetia on the border with wartorn republic of Chechnya in 1996. With the medical staff vanishing to apparently find help, the patients are left to their own endeavors. Zhanna Yuliya Vysotskaya, a young woman, lives in the belief that the pop star Bryan Adams is her fiance, that he is off on tour and will, at some point in the future, come to take her away with him. Zhanna is sort of the ad hoc keeper of peace, happiness and control of the others; she attempts to help curb some of the other patients exuberant impulses. Blissfully unaware of the terror of the war, the patients stick it out in the hospital. Their guests include a group of Chechen rebels, one of whom, Ahmed Sultan Islamov, gives Zhanna the idea that he will marry her. At this point Zhanna falls in love with Ahmed. She goes back to the House where, with the help of her fellow residents, she prepares for her marriage to Ahmed. From this point on Zhanna prepares for and expects to be swept away by Ahmed. Her hopes dont come to fruition and Ahmed and Zhanna part ways. Zhanna returns to the House in order to resume her life there. The story was partially inspired by the reallife tragedy of the psychiatric hospital in Shali, Chechnya, which was abandoned by the personnel during the Russian bombing campaign and in which many patients subsequently died from attacks and neglect. The story also mirrors the plot of Philippe de Brocas 1967 French cult classic film King of Hearts Le Roi de coeur, starring Alan Bates about the inmates of an asylum abandoned by the staff during World War I who take over the neighboring town. The two films even share similarities in their conclusion, with a soldier taking refuge from the insanity of war in the asylum when it returns to normal. Although there are some similar aspects to King Of Hearts, the difference in the two films is that the inmatespatients in King of Hearts take on the various personalities of the town folk; mayor, baker, prostitute, etc.