Event

Ragin

IN PERSON, FROM MOSCOW:
Celebrated Actor Alexei Guskov

NOTE: Ticket for RAGIN is only for film and discussion. Reception with actor Alexei Guskov and director Ivan Solovov is available with a ticket to THE FATHER.

At the turn of the twentieth century, Andrey Yefmitch Ragin (Alexei Guskov), who heads a deteriorating and poorly administered asylum near St. Petersburg, wants to bring new Viennese ideas to the treatment of hysteria and mental illness, but a younger doctor challenges his embrace of modern ideas and favors more brutal methodologies. Sardonic, brooding, and at times fantastic, Ragin suggests that in some cases idealism may not be far from madness. -MoMA

Russia/Austria, 2005, 95 min., color; In Russian, German with English subtitles; Director: Kirill Serebrennikov; Cast: Alexei Guskov, Alexander Galibin, Dmitri Muliar, Agrippina Steklova