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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
Zbigniew ZapasiewiczAdam Małecki
Maja KomorowskaMarta Małecka
Aleksander BardiniProfessor
Kazimierz DejunowiczNowicki
Jan EnglertAndrzej Jezierski
Piotr FronczewskiDoctor
Jerzy KamasPriest
Zygmunt MalawskiZbigniew Woźniak
Marian OpaniaStaszek
Czesław WołłejkoPatient
Zygmunt ZintelFormer Camp Prisoner
Jolanta BohdalGosiaExplore the crew
- Director of Photography
- Jan Hesse
- Director
- Edward Żebrowski
- Screenplay
- Edward Żebrowski
- Editor
- Urszula Śliwińska