Diagnosis: Dissent

7.9 / 10

(7 votes)

The protagonist Andrii Dovzhenko finds out a horrible truth, that has been hidden in USSR for years - most of those accused of «anti-Soviet propaganda» were never sent to prison, but to special psychiatric hospitals with a diagnosis of "slow progressive schizophrenia". Andrii finds himself in a real hell of punitive psychiatry and faces a difficult choice - to cooperate with the KGB and return to his family, or to reveal the truth about dissidents tortured in such psychiatric hospitals. The script was based on the memoirs of Soviet dissidents who faced the brutality of a totalitarian system that used so-called "punitive psychiatry" as a weapon against free thought.

Country:

Ukraine

Genre:

Drama,

History

Duration:

118 minutes

Year:

2024

Director:

Denis Tarasov

Cast:
Kostiantyn Temliak

Andriy Dovzhenko

Nataliia Babenko

Oksana Dovzhenko

Serhii Kalantai

Valentyn Stelmakh

Irma Vitovska

Iryna Lahnovska

Ostap Stupka

Mykola Khudymchuk

Crew:
Taras Bosak

Executive Producer

Artem Koliubaiev

Producer

Denis Tarasov

Director

Yevhenii Kyrei

Director of Photography

Valerіya Іvanenko

Producer