Diagnosis: Dissent

Diagnosis: Dissent

118 mins | Drama, History | Oct. 9, 2023

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.

Diagnosis: Dissent

118 mins | Drama, History | Oct. 9, 2023

Diagnosis: Dissent
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.
IMDb rating 8.1
Producers
Original title БожеВільні
Directors Denys Tarasov
Writers Ksenіya Zastavsyka

Cast

Kostiantyn Temliak

as Andriy Dovzhenko

Nataliia Babenko

as Oksana Dovzhenko

Irma Vitovska

as Iryna Lahnovska

Ostap Stupka

as Mykola Khudimchuk

Vitalii Salii

as Kozych

Serhii Kysil

as Vitaliy Kravets

Andrii Mostrenko

as Rogoza

Sergey Kalantay

as Valentin Stelmakh

Dmytro Oliynyk

as Hamlet

Oles Katsion

as Nurse Levchenko

Pavlo Kostitsyn

as Volodymyr Prus