Diagnosis: Dissent

Diagnosis: Dissent (2024)

DramaHistory

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.

Director: Denis Tarasov

Casts

	Kostiantyn Temliak as Andrii Dovzhenko
	Nataliia Babenko as Oksana Dovzhenko
	Sergey Kalantay as Valentyn Stelmakh
	Irma Vitovska as Iryna Lakhnovska
	Ostap Stupka as Mykola Khudymchuk
	Serhii Kysil as Vitalii Kravets
	Vitalii Salii as Kozych
	Andrii Mostrenko as Rohoza
	Dmytro Oliinyk as Hamlet
	Oles Katsion as Nurse Levchenko
	Pavlo Kostitsyn as Volodymyr Prus
	Roman Yakymchuk as Zhukovets
	Yevhen Chernykov as Mykola Bantysh
	Oleg Stalchuk as Radio Director
	Viktor Zhdanov as Hamlet’s Father
	Oleh Stefanov as Pastor
	Tamara Morozova as Doctor
	Oleksandr Hryhor'yev as Doctor
	Anastasiia Pustovit as Nurse
	Artem Martynishyn as Orderly
	Anton Solovey as Radio Colleague
	Анастасія Атаманчук as Registry Nurse
	Hryhorii Bokovenko as Grandpa
	Ihor Bukhaltsev as Orderly
	Володимир Шиповалов as Offender
	Timofey Dmitrienko as Andrii's Son (uncredited)

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