Diagnosis: Dissent (2024)

  • NR
  • 11/10/2024 (BG)
  • Drama, History
  • 1h 58m

Overview

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.

Denis Tarasov

Director

Kseniia Zastavska

Writer

Cast

Kostiantyn Temliak's headshot

Kostiantyn Temliak

Andriy Dovzhenko
Nataliia Babenko's headshot

Nataliia Babenko

Oksana Dovzhenko
Irma Vitovska's headshot

Irma Vitovska

Iryna Lahnovska
Ostap Stupka's headshot

Ostap Stupka

Mykola Khudimchuk
Vitalii Salii's headshot

Vitalii Salii

Kozych
Serhii Kysil's headshot

Serhii Kysil

Vitaliy Kravets
Andrii Mostrenko's headshot

Andrii Mostrenko

Rogoza
Serhii Kalantai's headshot

Serhii Kalantai

Valentin Stelmakh

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