Ocalenie (1972)

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Country: Poland
Genres: Drama
Release: 1972-09-15
Director: Edward Zebrowski
Writers: Edward Zebrowski
Language: Polish
Stars: Zbigniew Zapasiewicz , Maya Komarovska , Aleksander Bardini , Kazimierz Dejunowicz , Jan Englert , Piotr Fronczewski , Jerzy Kamas , Zygmunt Malawski , Marian Opania , Czeslaw Wollejko
Runtime: 87 min
Awards: 1 win & 2 nominations
AKA: Salvation , Potilas (Finland) , Ocalenie (Poland) , Ocalenie
Plot: A biology professor, Adam, after several dizzy spells, 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 moribound patient whose kideny may be used for the transplant.
IMDB:tt0070466