Salvation

Story

Synopsis

A biology professor, Adam 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 moribund patient whose kidney may be used for the transplant.

Director

Edward Żebrowski

Writers

Edward Żebrowski

Language

Polish

Country

Poland

Release date

15 September 1972

Ensemble

Cast

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  Zbigniew Zapasiewicz

  Adam Małecki

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  Maja Komorowska

  Marta Małecka

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  Aleksander Bardini

  Professor

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  Kazimierz Dejunowicz

  Nowicki

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  Jan Englert

  Andrzej Jezierski

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  Piotr Fronczewski

  Doctor

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  Jerzy Kamas

  Priest

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  Zygmunt Malawski

  Zbigniew Woźniak

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  Marian Opania

  Staszek

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  Czesław Wołłejko

  Patient

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  Zygmunt Zintel

  Former Camp Prisoner

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  Jolanta Bohdal

  Gosia