Without Anesthesia (1978)

Original title

Bez znieczulenia

Directed by

Andrzej Wajda

Genre

drama film

Country

France, Poland

Runtime

1h 50m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A successful Polish journalist watches his personal and professional life unravel during the 1960s. He covers global conflicts but struggles to hold together his own relationships and career.

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What happens

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. It was entered in the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. According to the screenplay, Without Anesthesia takes place in the 1960s. 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 whose personal life and career are falling apart. The main character is based on Ryszard Kapuściński, the prominent Polish journalist and author of the "reportage" school. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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