The Russian Sleep Experiment

It is early 1940s in the Soviet Union, and the war couldn't be going worse for the Russians. They are looking for some sort of edge, any edge over their determined enemy. A group of scientists in Siberia, until military control, come up with an audacious plan: using stimulant gases they will conduct an experiment on a group of political prisoners to test what happens when human beings are kept awake... for two weeks straight. At first, the experiment is a smashing success. The prisoners get along swimmingly, and the effects of sleeplessness appear negligible. But then... something happens. The subjects become more withdrawn, less talkative, and begin behaving in increasingly strange ways. Soon enough, the experimenters wonder if the table has not been turned. Are they the ones doing the experiment, or are they then ones upon which the experiment is taking place? "The Russian Sleep Experiment" is a psychological horror film that asks disturbing questions both about human nature, and the danger of scientific experiment without purpose. Two locations, small cast. Low budget.