A Long History of Madness
2011, English. Directed by Mieke Bal & Michelle Williams Gamaker.
If your mentally ill patient dies, are you to blame? For Dr Françoise Davoine, Parisian psychoanalyst, this question becomes disturbingly real as one of her patients, Ariste, dies. Davoine is abducted and put on trial by mediaeval fools and through the course of one hellish day - across several centuries and countries - must argue her case for exoneration. As the journey forces Dr Davoine to question her own life, via a mix of fiction, documentary and theory, A Long History of Madness takes the viewer on a one-of-a-kind journey into the minds of the ‘mad’ and those designated to cure them.
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- Released
- 1 January 2011
- Country
- Netherlands
- Written by
- Françoise Davoine, Mieke Bal
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A Long History of Madness isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 2011. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed A Long History of Madness?
A Long History of Madness (2011) was directed by Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams Gamaker.