Without Anesthesia

Movie

Without Anesthesia

Drama

A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show featuring questions and answers on a world conference by a panel of journalists. His enemies take away his privileges when he is away. The shock of being "unwanted" parallels a deeper disappointment in his private life: his wife has an affair with a jealous young rival, and after 15 years of marriage and two daughters wants a divorce. She offers no explanations as he tries to untie these problems himself. All the moves he makes are the wrong ones. He takes on drinking heavily with students eager to attend his seminar after discovering the class has been canceled. The journalist, once suave and commanding, is reduced to silence.

Date: 11/27/1978

Rating: 6.6

Cast: Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Ewa Dałkowska, Andrzej Seweryn, Krystyna Janda, Roman Wilhelmi, Emilia Krakowska, Kazimierz Kaczor, Magda Teresa Wójcik, Jerzy Stuhr, Iga Mayr, Aleksandra Jasieńska, Marta Salinger, Stefania Iwińska, Halina Golanko, Danuta Balicka, Jolanta Kozak-Sutowicz, Zygmunt Kęstowicz, Tadeusz Andrzejewski, Krzysztof Bauman, Teodor Gendera, Zbigniew Grusznic, Jacek Kałucki, Waldemar Kapitułka, Krzysztof Kiersznowski, Maria Kulina, Michał Kula, Wanda Stanisławska-Lothe, Ryszard Łabędź, Marlena Miarczyńska, Sylwester Maciejewski, Stanisław Michalski, Andrzej Mrowiec, W. Niecięgiewicz, Izabella Olejnik, Witold Pyrkosz, Bogdan Szymkowski, Tomasz Stockinger, Bogusław Sobczuk, Jerzy Radziwiłowicz, Grzegorz Wons, Wojciech Wysocki, Krystyna Wolańska, Krzysztof Zaleski, Tomasz Zygadło, Alicja Bienicewicz, Andrzej Wajda

Zbigniew Zapasiewicz