Film »Diagnosis: Dissent« und Diskussion mit Prof. Dr. Gelinada Grinchenko

DIAGNOSIS: DISSENT (2023)
БОЖЕВІЛЬНІ , R: DENIS TARASOV , HISTORICAL DRAMA

"Diagnosis: Dissent" is a Ukrainian historical drama by director Denis Tarasov, duration: 118 minutes. The Gerhart-Hauptmann-Haus is showing the film as part of the Ukrainian Film Days NRW 2025, which offer audiences a special opportunity to get to know the diversity and depth of Ukrainian cinema.

About the film: The protagonist Andrii Dovzhenko discovers a terrible truth that was hidden for years in the USSR - most of those accused of "anti-Soviet propaganda" were never sent to prison, but to special psychiatric clinics with a diagnosis of "slowly progressing schizophrenia". Andrii finds himself in a real hell of penal psychiatry and faces a difficult decision to cooperate with the KGB and return to his family or to reveal the truth about the dissidents tortured in such psychiatric hospitals. "Diagnosis: Dissent" celebrated its world premiere at the Warsaw International Film Festival in 2023.

Afterwards, we cordially invite you to a discussion with Prof. Dr. Gelinada Grinchenko. Prof. Grinchenko is a professor at the Department of World History at the National Oles-Honchar University in Dnipro (Ukraine) and a research associate at the Department of History at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. She is also co-chair of the German-Ukrainian Historical Commission. Her research focuses on oral history and memory studies, the history and memory of the Second World War and the analysis of Soviet rule. In 2024, together with Prof. Dr. Albert Venher, she published the monograph "Archival Case Files Regarding the Killings of Psychiatric Hospital Patients in Occupied Dnipropetrovsk Region during WWII".

The film will be shown in the original version with English subtitles.

The Ukrainian Film Days NRW are organized by the Blau-Gelben Kreuz e.V. (Blue-Yellow Cross). "Diagnosis: Dissent" will be shown in cooperation with the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Haus Foundation.