Diagnosis: Dissent

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.

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Cast

Kostiantyn Temliak

Andrii Dovzhenko

Nataliia Babenko

Oksana Dovzhenko

Sergey Kalantay

Valentyn Stelmakh

Irma Vitovska

Iryna Lakhnovska

Ostap Stupka

Mykola Khudymchuk

Serhii Kysil

Vitalii Kravets

Vitalii Salii

Kozych

Andrii Mostrenko

Rohoza

Dmytro Oliinyk

Hamlet

Oles Katsion

Nurse Levchenko