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A biographical film about a Czech doctor, Dr. Jánský. The athletically inclined medic Jánský successfully completes his studies. He wants to become a surgeon, but finds himself in Professor Kuffner's psychiatric clinic, where, together with his colleague Kozdera, he tries to uncover the connection between blood clotting and mental illness. They make the surprising discovery that human blood can be divided into four groups and thus prevent it from clotting during transfusions. However, Jánský's discovery is met with misunderstanding by the Czech medical community...Read moreLess
A biographical film about a Czech doctor, Dr. Jánský. The athletically inclined medic Jánský successfully completes his studies. He wants to become a surgeon, but finds himself in Professor Kuffner's psychiatric clinic, where, together with his colleague Kozdera, he tries to uncover the connection between blood clotting and mental illness. They make the surprising discovery that human blood can be divided into four groups and thus prevent it from clotting during transfusions. However, Jánský's discovery is met with misunderstanding by the Czech medical community...
The story
A biographical film about a Czech doctor, Dr. Jánský. The athletically inclined medic Jánský successfully completes his studies. He wants to become a surgeon, but finds himself in Professor Kuffner's psychiatric clinic, where, together with his colleague Kozdera, he tries to uncover the connection between blood clotting and mental illness. They make the surprising discovery that human blood can be divided into four groups and thus prevent it from clotting during transfusions. However, Jánský's discovery is met with misunderstanding by the Czech medical community...
Cast & crew
Vladimír RážDr. Jan Janský
Zdeněk ŠtěpánekProf. Kuffner
Jiřina PetrovickáHedva
Vlastimil BrodskýDr. Kozdera
Svatopluk BenešDr. Regent
Rudolf HrušínskýKurzweil
Rudolf DeylPapik
Radovan LukavskýKolcava
Vlasta ChramostováKolcavova
Gustav HilmarProf. Kyselka
Světla SvozilováKyselkova
Bohuš HradilDr. PluharExplore the crew
- Director
- Martin Frič
- Editor
- Jan Kohout
- Screenplay
- Vladimír Neff
- Director of Photography
- Jan Stallich
- Original Music Composer
- Dalibor C. Vačkář