La porta aperta 1968

Overview

The documentary, which begins with a sentence by Primo Levi on the condition of internees, tells the Italian mental hospital situation during Franco Basaglia's first experiments. The initial images, shot in the Psychiatric Hospital of Gorizia, show a series of patients in the hospital garden. Dazed and apathetic patients (especially photos). A patient is blocked by two health workers in a straitjacket. A patient is resumed who constantly repeats the gesture of rubbing his hands. A roundup follow