Summaries

The film is set in 1943 in an unusual mental asylum in the country. There are several incurable schizophrenic cases, the staff is bit strange, and a writer has voluntarily entered the clinic because he is "peculiar" and a drug addict. The Gestapo arrives and the commander asks for the list of patients, sorts out the Aryan doctors from the others on a return trip, and herds everyone into trucks for evacuation to the extermination camps. A young doctor momentarily escapes by covering himself under a pile of laundry in the basement, and then escapes to the woods just as the German soldiers appear.—Polish Cinema Database <http://info.fuw.edu.pl/Filmy/>

Details

Keywords
  • hospital
  • doctor
  • gestapo
  • asylum
  • staff
Genres
  • Drama
Release date Mar 27, 1979
Countries of origin Poland
Language German Polish
Filming locations Tworki Mental Hospital, Pruszków, Mazowieckie, Poland
Production companies Zespol Filmowy "Tor"

Box office

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 30m
Color Color Black and White
Sound mix Mono
Aspect ratio 1.75 : 1

Synopsis

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