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Patient No. 1 (2023)
Directed by Rezo Gigineishvili
Overview
The end of the Soviet empire. The General Secretary lies in the government clinic. He is old and frail, but has a tight grip on power. “The power is only taken, it is never given away,” he repeats. And it is convenient for both the elites and the secret services—while the “body” is alive, various groups are scoring their political points. The General Secretary is “sentenced to life”. A young nurse Sasha looks after him. Small, fragile and invisible, she bears a heavy burden of responsibility for the life of the country’s top official. Meanwhile, the old man is waging a war in Afghanistan, has a nuclear button and can take the entire world to the grave with him.
Length 114 minutes
Actors
Aleksandr Filippenko | Olga Makeeva | Inna Churikova | Igor Chernevich | Sergey Gilev | Vladimir Steklov | Irina Kupchenko | Sergey Stepin | Mariya Shalayeva