A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
September 15, 1972
Original Title:
Ocalenie
Alternate Titles:
Potilas
Genres:
Drama
Production Companies:
Studio Filmowe Tor
Production Countries:
Poland
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 87
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.
Assistant Camera:
Jan Ossowski
Jerzy Tomczuk
Assistant Director:
Joanna Krauze
Assistant Editor:
Łucja Ośko
Assistant Makeup Artist:
Krystyna Leszczyńska
Assistant Production Manager:
Roman Kowalski
Pawel Mann
Camera Operator:
Zbigniew Hartwig
Costume Design:
Ewa Braun
Director:
Edward Żebrowski
Director of Photography:
Jan Hesse
Editor:
Urszula Śliwińska
First Assistant Director:
Wojciech Wójcik
Makeup Artist:
Maria Papińska
Music:
Andrzej Korzyński
Production Consultant:
Marek Dąbrowski
Zygmunt Filipowicz
Production Design:
Adam T. Nowakowski
Production Manager:
Włodzimierz Śliwiński
Screenplay:
Edward Żebrowski
Set Decoration:
Teresa Gałkowska-Lesman
Sound:
Małgorzata Jaworska
Sound Assistant:
Andrzej Sadowski
Supervising Art Director:
Stanisław Różewicz
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