PAVILLION VI

Genre: Drama
Year: 1978
Directed by: Lucian Pintilie
Screenplay by: Lucian Pintilie
Music: archive
Cast: Slobodan Perovic, Zoran Radmilovic, Slavko Simic, Pavle Vujisic, Ljuba Tadic, Stevo Zigon

The film is a screening of the novela of the same name by A. P. Chekhov, about a doctor working in a provincial hospital under Tsarist Russia, who, having become quite aphathetic, spends his days aimlessly, without any interes even for his regular work. One day in Pavillion VII, the pshychiatric ward, he meets one of his former students, a rebellious, restless spirit. Attracted by what he feels are the original and new ideas of his patient, the doctor spends more and more time with him and giving himself up to maditation slowly begins losing touch with reality. His colleagues first ridicule him and then reject him, until finally the doctor ends up in Pavillion VI himself where he comes to a tragic end.