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Prelude of Silence

Prelude of Silence

Gaya Gasparian | Netherlands | 2006 | 8' |

| IFFR 2007

A penetrating glimpse inside a psychiatric institution in Armenia at the beginning of perestroika. A female patient, once an intellectual, asks the doctor for a favour. Then first she will have to do an errand, after which the existing balance of power really will be visible.

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