Sanatorium

Name: Sanatorium
Director: Gar O'Rourke
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2025-09-05
Rating: 7.5

Welcome to Kuyalnyk Sanatorium. Ukraine's favourite frontline holiday resort.

2025 · 91 min · ★ 7.5 · Documentary

Despite a war raging close by, mud treatments and electroshock therapies continue at Kuyalnik Sanatorium, an enormous 1970s brutalist building on the shores of Odesa, where a small group search for love, healing, and happiness.

Directed by Gar O'Rourke

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