Nise: The Heart of Madness
20161h 46m8.1/10PT
After being released from prison, Dr. Nise da Silveira is back at work in a psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro where she refuses to employ the new and violent electroshock in the treatment of schizophrenics. Ridiculed by doctors, she is forced to take on the abandoned Sector for Occupational Therapy, where she would start a revolution through paintings, animals and love.
Director: Roberto Berliner
Writer: Flávia Castro, Maurício Lissovski, Patrícia Andrade
Cast: Glória Pires, Julio Adrião, Claudio Jaborandy, Fabrício Boliveira, Roberta Rodrigues, Flávio Bauraqui, Fernando Eiras, Charles Fricks
Country: Brazil
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