Where does the dividing line lie between insanity and supersensitive mentality? How should we treat people who act in a different way then we do? A young and gifted shrink sets up a group, using up-to-date and unknown methods. His idea is to socialize such people, to integrate them into a society they keep aloof from, and help them to survive.
Acting
Eli Skorcheva's haunting, unpredictable Veronika.
Direction
Radev's documentary-like institutional realism.
Director
Vulo Radev
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Bulgaria's late communist period, the film's critique of institutional control carried subversive political weight rarely acknowledged explicitly.
Radev drew from emerging anti-psychiatry movements; Dr. Bankov's methods mirror controversial real therapies like R.D. Laing's experimental communities.
BG
