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MADLY IN DISSENT

By Kirill SAKHARNOV, Ksenia SAKHARNOVA

INTERCINEMA - as SALES All rights, World / DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, World

Documentary - Completed 2023

A man confronting a totalitarian state: on August 25, 1968 Viktor Fainberg (whopassed away in France in January 2023) took part in the legendary Red Square
demonstration against the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. He was subjected to the heaviest repression in the USSR: punitive psychiatry.

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Documentary, Drama, Jewish
- Countries
- CZECH REPUBLIC, ISRAEL
- Languages
- CZECH, FRENCH, ENGLISH, RUSSIAN
- Duration
- 86 mn
- Director(s)
- Kirill SAKHARNOV, Ksenia SAKHARNOVA
- Writer(s)
- Ksenia SAKHARNOVA, Kirill SAKHARNOV
- Cast
- Victor FAINBERG
- Producer(s)
- Jarmila POLÁKOVÁ (Film & Sociology), Michael GRYNSZPAN (NewVision Productions Ltd.)
- Synopsis
- A man confronting a totalitarian state: on August 25, 1968 Viktor Fainberg (who passed away in France in January 2023) took part in the legendary Red Square demonstration against the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. He was subjected to the heaviest repression in the USSR: punitive psychiatry. Rather than falling into despair, he managed to organize an international campaign against the use of psychiatry for political purposes from his prison cell.