Nise: The Heart of Madness (2016)
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.
- Released
- 2016-04-21
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Roberto Berliner, Flávia Castro, Roberto Berliner, Maurício Lissovski
- TMDB rating
- 8.1/10 from 138 votes
Cast
- Glória Pires as Nise da Silveira
- Simone Mazzer as Adelina Gomes
- Julio Adrião as Carlos Pertuis
- Claudio Jaborandy as Emygdio de Barros
- Fabrício Boliveira as Fernando Diniz
- Roney Villela as Lúcio Noeman
- Flávio Bauraqui as Otávio Ignácio
- Bernardo Marinho as Raphael Domingues
- Augusto Madeira as Lima
- Felipe Rocha as Almir
- Roberta Rodrigues as Ivone
- Georgiana Góes as Martha Pires