Documentary film “One”

The film tells the story of the person commonly referred to as “patient zero” — the first citizen of the USSR to be diagnosed with HIV.

This case marked the official beginning of the epidemic in 1987, which has affected several million people in Russia: those living with the virus and those who died of AIDS. Yet almost nothing is known about this individual. The few available facts have long dissolved into layers of myth, propaganda, and disinformation. There are no photographs or video recordings of him, so his biography had to be reconstructed from scratch, turning the film into a work of historical investigation.