Patient#1

  • Werner Herzog Film Award 2023

  • 33 Cottbus Film Festival

    Special Prize for best director

  • Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2023

    Best Production Design

  • Tromso International Film Festival

  • White elephant critics award

    Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress

About the film

Late USSR. The General Secretary lies in the government clinic. He is old and frail, but has a tight grip on power. “The power is taken, it is never given away,” he repeats. And various groups are scoring their political points while the “body” is alive. Sasha, a fragile invisible nurse bears a heavy burden of responsibility for the life of the “sentenced to life” official.

  • Written by

    Aleksandr Rodionov, Rezo Gigineishvili

  • DOP

    Piotr Bratersky

  • Starring

    Aleksandr Filippenko, Olga Makeeva, Sergey Gilev, Igor Chernevich, Inna Churikova, Vladimir Steklov, Maria Shalaeva, Irina Kupchenko

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