Ward No. 6 (film)

Ward No. 6 (Палата № 6) is a 2009 Russian drama film directed by Aleksandr Gornovsky and Karen Shakhnazarov.

The film was selected as the Russian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 82nd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.

Plot
The film tells about the doctor of the provincial psychiatric hospital Ragin, who meets a patient with his own philosophy, as a result of communication with which he himself becomes crazy.

Cast

 * Vladimir Ilyin as Ragin
 * Aleksey Vertkov as Gromov
 * Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyorny as Mikhail Averyanovich
 * Yevgeny Stychkin as Khobotov
 * Viktor Solovyov as Nikita
 * Aleksey Zharkov as Old chief physician
 * Albina Evtushevskaya as Darya
 * Anna Sinyakina
 * Alina Olshanskaya
 * Stanislav Eventov

Critical response
Ward No.6 has an approval rating of 67% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 6 reviews, and an average rating of 6.00/10.