Summary A biology professor, Adam, after several dizzy spells, enters a hospital for observation. He is a loner and a serious-minded man, who dislikes any display of emotions. He spends three months in the hospital while being tested. After observing patients and hospital routines around him from a distance, he learns that he will need a kidney transplant. Meanwhile his personal and professional life is falling apart: he refuses his wife's offer to donate the kidney for him; the scientific problem he was working on has been solved elsewhere. In the end Adam cracks under the prolonged pressure, waiting for the sound of an ambulance bringing a moribound patient whose kideny may be used for the transplant. View more details
Directed : Edward Zebrowski
Written : Edward Zebrowski
Stars : Zbigniew Zapasiewicz Maja Komorowska Aleksander Bardini Kazimierz Dejunowicz
Genres : Drama
Release date : Sep 14, 1972
Countries of origin : Poland
Language : Polish
Filming locations : Poland
Production companies : Film Polski
Summary A biology professor, Adam, after several dizzy spells, enters a hospital for observation. He is a loner and a serious-minded man, who dislikes any display of emotions. He spends three months in the hospital while being tested. After observing patients and hospital routines around him from a distance, he learns that he will need a kidney transplant. Meanwhile his personal and professional life is falling apart: he refuses his wife's offer to donate the kidney for him; the scientific problem he was working on has been solved elsewhere. In the end Adam cracks under the prolonged pressure, waiting for the sound of an ambulance bringing a moribound patient whose kideny may be used for the transplant. View more details
Genres : Drama
Release date : Sep 14, 1972
Countries of origin : Poland
Language : Polish
Filming locations : Poland
Production companies : Film Polski
