Diagnosis: Dissent
2024
118 minutes
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.
Top 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
Pavlo Kostitsyn
Volodymyr Prus
Roman Yakymchuk
Zhukovets
Yevhen Chernykov
Mykola Bantysh
Oleg Stalchuk
Radio Director
Viktor Zhdanov
Hamlet’s Father
Oleh Stefanov
Pastor
Tamara Morozova
Doctor
Oleksandr Hryhor'yev
Doctor
Anastasiia Pustovit
Nurse
Artem Martynishyn
Orderly
Anton Solovey
Radio Colleague
Анастасія Атаманчук
Registry Nurse
Hryhorii Bokovenko
Grandpa
Ihor Bukhaltsev
Orderly
Володимир Шиповалов
Offender
Timofey Dmitrienko
Andrii's Son (uncredited)