NISE: THE HEART OF MADNESS

SYNOPSIS.TXT

After being released from prison, Dr. Nise da Silveira is back at work in a psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro where she refuses to employ the new and violent electroshock in the treatment of schizophrenics. Ridiculed by doctors, she is forced to take on the abandoned Sector for Occupational Therapy, where she would start a revolution through paintings, animals and love.

CAST_AND_CREW

Glória Pires

Nise da Silveira

Julio Adrião

Carlos Pertuis

Claudio Jaborandy

Emygdio de Barros

Fabrício Boliveira

Fernando Diniz

Roberta Rodrigues

Ivone

Flávio Bauraqui

Otávio Inácio

Fernando Eiras

Mário Magalhães

Charles Fricks

Mário Pedrosa

Luciana Fregolente

Eugênia

Zécarlos Machado

Dr. Nelson