Patient No. 1

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

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