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Eine Krankheit wie ein Gedicht
A daughter's personal account of her father's painful inner conflict between violent mental illness, unconditional love, and artistic expression.
“A very personal, surprisingly humorous and touching film about mental illness, anxiety and family closeness.”
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“[...] which makes "A Disease Like a Poem" a formally interesting, thematically complex documentary film.”
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Drug-induced, chronic, schizoaffective psychosis of the manic spectrum, polydrug type, not morphine type – that's my father's diagnosis. In other words, he repeatedly experiences the same cycle: he falls into drug-induced psychoses, is sobered up in psychiatric hospitals, and then sinks into depressive shame. During these psychoses, he is unpredictable and openly acts out his violence against the people around him – including my mother and me. For me, however, he is not only a perpetrator whose actions I condemn in the strongest terms, but also a person I love and an artist I admire. He has immortalized and documented his psychoses and inner worlds in photographs, paintings, and sculptures. He fights against himself, his illness, and the system. And I am by his side.
