Diagnosis: Dissent (2023)
119 min
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.
- Release date
- October 13, 2023
- Country of origin
- Ukraine
- Music
- Hossein Mirzagholi
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Cast
- Nataliya Babenko as Oksana Dovzhenko
- Sergey Kalantay as Valentin Stelmakh
- Irma Vitovska as Iryna Lahnovska
- Ostap Stupka as Mykola Khudimchuk
- Vitaliy Saliy as Kozych
- Andrey Mostrenko as Rogoza
- Evhen Chernykov as Mykola Bantysh
- Viktor Zhdanov as Hamlet’s Father
- Aleksandr Grigor'yev as Doctor
- Anastasiia Pustovit as Nurse
- Grigoriy Bokovenko as Grandpa
- Kostyantyn Temlyak as Andriy Dovzhenko
- Serhiy Kysil' as Vitaliy Kravets
- Dmytro Oliynyk as Hamlet
- Oles Katsion as Nurse Levchenko
Crew
- Denis Tarasov · Director
- Oksana Prysiazhniuk · Writer
- Taras Bosak · Producer
- Valeria Ivanenko · Producer
- Artem Koliubaiev · Producer
- Hossein Mirzagholi · Composer
- Eugeniy Kirey · Cinematographer
- Mikayel Torgomyan · Editor
- Ivan Tyshchenko · Production designer