Ko pridem ven

When I Get Out
  • Documentary Feature Film
  • 106' 11''
  • 2025
  • Slovenia

Synopsis

The film director and the psychiatrist go to Dob Prison, a central Slovenian prison. The director believes that there are stories locked up there, and the psychiatrist believes that his psychodrama method can open up a redemptive creative space and a glimpse into the convicts' future. A liberated territory in a closed area?

A psychiatrist and psychotherapist (Vladimir Milošević) arrives at the central Slovenian prison Dob. He presents a psychodrama workshop program for the inmates to get to know themselves better and to think about their future. Most of the convicts who sign up are those with the most severe crimes and lengthy prison sentences. A psychotherapist introduces the process to the applicants: through drama, they will discover unknown dimensions of themselves and enter into unpredictable relationships with other convicts. The selected convicts have very different criminal backgrounds and, in many ways, different or even opposite characters. They come from various departments, and most do not know each other. In the psychodrama process, they meet robbers, sexual deviants, drug dealers, and murderers. Each of them has a morally deformed profile. Some are remorseful and sincere in wanting to change themselves and start a different life after their sentence. In contrast, others are still shriveled up, talking about betrayal, the injustice of the trial, and their innocence.

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