Diagnosis: Dissent (2024)
Rating: 7.9/10
Duration: 118 min
Director(s): Denis Tarasov,
Description:
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
- Andrii Mostrenko as Rogoza
- Yevhen Chernykov as Mykola Bantysh
- Serhii Kalantai as Valentyn Stelmakh
- Kostiantyn Temliak as Andriy Dovzhenko
- Nataliia Babenko as Oksana Dovzhenko
- Irma Vitovska as Iryna Lahnovska
- Ostap Stupka as Mykola Khudymchuk
- Vitalii Salii as Kozych
- Serhii Kysil as Vitaliy Kravets
- Dmytro Oliinyk as Hamlet
- Oles Katsion as Nurse Levchenko
- Pavlo Kostitsyn as Volodymyr Prus
- Roman Yakymchuk as Zhukovets
- Oleg Stalchuk as Radio Director
- Oleh Stefanov as Pastor