Patient No. 1

Patient No. 1 — Plot

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.

• Release date
• October 6, 2023
• Runtime
• 114 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Rezo Gigineishvili

Patient No. 1 — Cast

Aleksandr Filippenko The General Secretary Olga Makeeva Sasha Inna Churikova Zhena Genseka Igor Chernevich Rodionov Sergey Gilev Molodoy Vladimir Steklov Ministr Irina Kupchenko Mat Sashi Sergey Styopin Urolog