Sanatorium

IMDb link: 35820341
IMDb rating: 7 (226 votes)
Genres: Documentary
Director: Gar O'Rourke

Release date: 5 Sep 2025
Release year: 2025
Runtime: 90 minutes
Country: Ireland, Ukraine, France
Keywords: male rear nudity, ukraine, mud bath, mother son relationship, odessa, spa, air raid siren, cinema verite, post soviet, ukraine russia war

Plot:

On the shores of Odesa in Southern Ukraine lies the imposing Kuyalnik Sanatorium, a crumbling Soviet era health facility that's seen better days. Join us over a summer season where the ever-dwindling guests come for the rejuvenating mud treatments and strange electroshock therapies, in search of love, healing and happiness.

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