Diagnosis: Dissent

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.

Cast

K Kostiantyn TemliakAndrii Dovzhenko N Nataliia BabenkoOksana Dovzhenko S Sergey KalantayValentyn Stelmakh I Irma VitovskaIryna Lakhnovska O Ostap StupkaMykola Khudymchuk S Serhii KysilVitalii Kravets V Vitalii SaliiKozych A Andrii MostrenkoRohoza D Dmytro OliinykHamlet O Oles KatsionNurse Levchenko P Pavlo KostitsynVolodymyr Prus R Roman YakymchukZhukovets

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Y Yevhen ChernykovMykola Bantysh O Oleg StalchukRadio Director V Viktor ZhdanovHamlet’s Father O Oleh StefanovPastor T Tamara MorozovaDoctor O Oleksandr Hryhor'yevDoctor A Anastasiia PustovitNurse A Artem MartynishynOrderly A Anton SoloveyRadio Colleague А Анастасія АтаманчукRegistry Nurse H Hryhorii BokovenkoGrandpa I Ihor BukhaltsevOrderly В Володимир ШиповаловOffender T Timofey DmitrienkoAndrii's Son (uncredited)