Diagnosis: Dissent
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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.
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Cast
28 people
Kostiantyn Temliak
Andrii Dovzhenko
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Nataliia Babenko
Oksana Dovzhenko
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Andriy Dovzhenko
Sergey Kalantay
Valentyn Stelmakh
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Vitaliy Saliy
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Irma Vitovska
Iryna Lakhnovska
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Ostap Stupka
Mykola Khudymchuk
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Serhii Kysil
Vitalii Kravets
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Vitalii Salii
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Andrii Mostrenko
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Dmytro Oliinyk
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Denis Tarasov Director · Kseniia Zastavska Writer Simor Hlasenko Writer
First release October 9, 2023 · Produced in Ukraine · Languages Russian, Ukrainian
Production
FILM.UA Group
Production
Ukraine
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Original title
БожеВільні
Original language
Ukrainian
Spoken on screen
Russian · Ukrainian
Release dates
Poland · October 9, 2023
Premiere · Warsaw Film Festival
Ukraine · October 31, 2024
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Bulgaria
November 10, 2024 · Premiere · OKO International Etnographic Film Festival: Bulgarian Edition
Singapore
May 20, 2025 · Premiere · European Film Festival
Ukraine
July 18, 2024 · Premiere · Odesa International Film Festival
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