Without Anesthesia
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| Directed by | Andrzej Wajda |
| Written by | Agnieszka Holland Andrzej Wajda |
| Starring | Zbigniew Zapasiewicz Ewa Dalkowska Andrzej Seweryn Krystyna Janda |
| Cinematography | Edward Klosinski |
| Music by | Jerzy Derfel |
Release date | 1978 |
Running time | 131 minutes |
| Country | Poland |
| Language | Polish |
Without Anesthesia (alternative English title: Rough Treatment) is the English-language title for the Polish film Bez znieczulenia, released in 1978, directed by Andrzej Wajda. It was entered in the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
According to the screenplay, Without Anesthesia takes place in the 1960s. Jerzy (Zbigniew Zapasiewicz), a well-known journalist and foreign correspondent who reports on wars, revolutions and guerrilla movements in the third world, is a man whose world is falling apart.
The main character is based on Ryszard Kapuściński, the prominent Polish journalist and author of the "reportage" school.[2]
The film opens with Jerzy sitting in as a celebrity-guest on a mildly idiotic television talkshow, but when he returns home that evening, he finds that his wife has walked out on him, taking their daughter with her, to live with a younger man. On its surface, the film seems to be about Jerzy's attempts to win back his wife, Ewa (Ewa Dalkowska), and to come to some understanding about what went wrong with their marriage. But as is often the case with Polish films[weasel words], what went wrong is inextricably bound up with politics.
Cast
- Zbigniew Zapasiewicz - Jerzy Michalowski
- Ewa Dalkowska - Ewa Michalowska
- Andrzej Seweryn - Jerzy Rosciszewski
- Krystyna Janda - Agata
- Emilia Krakowska - Wanda Jakowicz
- Roman Wilhelmi - Bronski
- Kazimierz Kaczor - Editor-in-chief
- Iga Mayr - Ewa's Mother
- Aleksandra Jasienska - Olenka
- Maria Salinger - Gabcia
- Stefania Iwinska - Józefa
- Halina Golanko - Halina Lukasik
- Jerzy Stuhr - Jerzy Porebowicz
- Magda Teresa Wójcik - Joanna Cichon
- Danuta Balicka-Satanowska - Judge
See also
References
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Without Anesthesia". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-05-24.
- ^ Tomasz Łubieński, "Kapuściński's pupil?" Gazeta Wyborcza, 3 March 2010, p. 13 (in Polish) ("Ryszard Kapuściński was the original model for the main character of Andrzej Wajda's film Without Anesthesia.")