Dormancy (2018)
16m
Running Time
August 24, 2018Release Date
Dormancy (2018)
16m
Running Time
August 24, 2018Release Date
Plot.
Set in 1932, at the height of prohibition and the growing American eugenics movement, the state of Vermont passes a law allowing for sexual sterilization of "idiots, imbeciles, feeble minded or insane persons likely to procreate." Dormancy follows a young woman and her new husband who work the land and earn a small income herding sheep and working with lumber. The couple is lured into a rural clinic where they subjected to the sadistic goals of the doctors and eugenics field workers. For this modest family, life will never be quite the same..
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Cast & Crew.
Pierre-Luc Désilets
Jacob Cloutier
Lee Goldberg
Emily Cloutier
Blanca Vivancos
Mother Ann
Nicholas W. Callais
Doctor #2
Dennis Cunningham
Dr. Geralds
Jessica Rheault
Nurse #1
Luke Becker-Lowe
Director
Michael Bartz
Doctor #3
Stephen Szmed
Producer
Logan Romjue
Sound Editor
Benjamin Knorr
Composer
George Geanopulos
Editor
Matheus Bastos
Camera Operator
Details.
This Movie Is About.
prohibition
vermont
eugenics
short