SPECIAL TREATMENT

Genre: Drama
Year: 1980
Directed by: Goran Paskaljevic
Screenplay by: Dusan Kovacevic
Music: Vojislav Kostic
Cast: Bora Todorovic, Danilo (Bata) Stojkovic, Danilo Lazovic, Dusan Janicijevic, Dusica Zegarac, Janez Vrhovec, Ljuba Tadic, Milan S

Dr. Ilic is a specialist in treating alcoholics confined to hospital. Purshing the "SPECIAL TREATMENT" he devised: a diet of apples, physical culture, Wagner' music and psychodrama, he takes six of his patients to a brewery where most of the workers have a real drinking problem.
The doctor is divorced and has custody of his seven year old son whom he takes with him. His patients are to give a performance illustrating their lives before the treatment and thereby show the evil of alcoholism. On this outing and in the brewery it is revealed that the doctor himself has problems, and his hypocrisy becomes evident when he is seen drinking surreptitiously. Events in the brewery confirm that Dr. Ilic devised his treatment to express his tyrannical personality. The alcoholics with all their weaknesses are ideal subjects and his rule over them is successful insofar as he manages to impose his will on them and deprive them of their personal freedom. At the end, even his son sees him as he is: it is his first painful experience.