Dormancy

Dormancy

Released on
Drama, History
Runtime
16 mins
(0 votes)

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...

Cast

  • Pierre-Luc Désilets
  • Lee Goldberg
  • Blanca Vivancos
  • Dennis Cunningham
  • Jessica Rheault
  • Nicholas W. Callais
  • Michael Bartz

Director

  • Luke Becker-Lowe
  • Nicholas W. Callais

Producers

  • Luke Becker-Lowe
  • Nicholas W. Callais
  • Stephen Szmed

Screenwriter

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