Schizophrénia (2001)

In the 1970s, the Brezhnev government erected political psychiatry as a mode of repression. No more trials or indictments but only indeterminate patients. The film starts at the Kijow center in Ukraine, where the victims of Soviet repression are trying, with the help of psychologists, to return to normal life. The chief medical officer is Semyon Guzman, one of the few Soviet psychiatrists who refused to practice political psychiatry and was sent to a labor camp for the same reason. Victims, doctors, dissidents, doctors are interviewed in the film to try to understand how a medicine participates in a system of oppression.