Without Anesthesia

Without Anesthesia

Infobox Film
name = Without Anesthesia


image_size = 200
caption =
director = Andrzej Wajda
writer = Agnieszka Holland
Andrzej Wajda
starring = Zbigniew Zapasiewicz
Ewa Dalkowska
Andrzej Seweryn
Krystyna Janda
music = Jerzy Derfel
cinematography = Edward Klosinski
editing =
released = 1978
runtime = 131
country = Poland
language = Polish
website =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0078857

"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.

According to the screenplay, "Without Anesthesia" takes place in the 1960s, but the action has much more to do with the dark days of Polish Stalinism in early-1950s. 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 whoese world is falling apart.

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 usually the case with Polish film, what went wrong is inextricably bound up with politics.

See also

*Cinema of Poland
*List of Polish language films

External links

*imdb title|id=0078857|title=Without Anesthesia


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