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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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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Kostiantyn TemliakAndrii Dovzhenko
Nataliia BabenkoOksana Dovzhenko
Sergey KalantayValentyn Stelmakh
Irma VitovskaIryna Lakhnovska
Ostap StupkaMykola Khudymchuk
Serhii KysilVitalii Kravets
Vitalii SaliiKozych
Andrii MostrenkoRohoza
Dmytro OliinykHamlet
Oles KatsionNurse Levchenko
Pavlo KostitsynVolodymyr PrusExplore the crew
- Producer
- Artem Koliubaiev
- Director
- Denis Tarasov
- Director of Photography
- Yevhenii Kyrei
- Writer
- Kseniia Zastavska
- Producer
- Taras Bosak
- Producer
- Valerіya Іvanenko
- Writer
- Simor Hlasenko
- Original Music Composer
- Hossein Mirzagholi