Diagnosis: Dissent vs Hacksaw Ridge

Hacksaw Ridge has the higher audience score (8.2/10 against 7.9/10 for Diagnosis: Dissent). Diagnosis: Dissent is the shorter watch at 1h 58m compared with 2h 19m. Hacksaw Ridge is the older of the two (2016 against 2024). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Diagnosis: Dissent posterDiagnosis: Dissent2024 VS Hacksaw Ridge posterHacksaw Ridge2016
Diagnosis: DissentHacksaw Ridge
Audience score★ 7.9/10★ 8.2/10
Year20242016
Length1h 58m2h 19m
GenresDrama, HistoryDrama, History, War
CountryUkraine–
DirectorDenis TarasovMel Gibson
Main castAndrii Mostrenko, Yevhen Chernykov, Serhii Kalantai, Kostiantyn Temliak, Nataliia BabenkoTeresa Palmer, Vince Vaughn, Richard Roxburgh, Firass Dirani, Hugo Weaving

Synopsis

Diagnosis: Dissent

The protagonist Andrii Dovzhenko finds out a horrible truth, that has been hidden in USSR for years - most of those accused of «anti-Soviet propaganda» were never sent to prison, but to special psychiatric hospitals with a diagnosis of "slow progressive schizophrenia". Andrii finds himself in a real hell of punitive psychiatry and faces a difficult choice - to cooperate with the KGB and return to his family, or to reveal the truth about…

Hacksaw Ridge

WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.

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