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Diagnosis: Dissent

0% | Oct 09, 2023 | Drama, History

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.

Featured Crew

Eugeniy Kirey
Director of Photography
Ksenіya Zastavsyka
Writer

Cast

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Kostiantyn Temliak
Andriy Dovzhenko
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Nataliia Babenko
Oksana Dovzhenko
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Irma Vitovska
Iryna Lahnovska
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Ostap Stupka
Mykola Khudimchuk

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