La seconda ombra (2000)
April 29, 2000Release Date
Plot.
The film deals with the events related to Franco Basaglia director of the asylum in Gorizia and promoter of the law that bears his name that revolutionized the conception of the mentally ill. Under the guise of factor what will be the new director of the asylum in Gorizia realizes the conditions in which the patients of the asylum live. Among electroshocks, lobotomys, forced shirts, beatings and closure the mentally ill live in a gruesome situation. Becoming director manages to modify the role of operating doctors and nurses and improve the living conditions of the patients. It will exploit the large garden of the hospital first forbidden to patients for walks and outdoor lunches. It will come to propose the demolition of the wall that divides the sick from the rest of society and so it will happen.
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Details.
Release DateApril 29, 2000
StatusReleased
Wiki.
La seconda ombra (English: The second shadow) is an Italian film directed by Silvano Agosti in 2000.
Most of the cast were people who had actually worked or lived in psychiatric hospitals in Gorizia and Trieste.