Without anesthesia

Andrzej Wajda and Agnieszka Holland about Hioba of the Gierka era. Jerzy Michałowski is a successful man: a well-known journalist, foreign correspondent, academic lecturer, privately happy husband and father of two daughters. Until the time. The wife announces that he is leaving, Michałowski loses classes at the university, his trip abroad is canceled, and his competence is undermined. He tries to defend himself, but the fight against an invisible opponent is unwinnable. After a divorce hearing, during which witnesses give false testimony and the wife's lawyer gives a slanderous speech, the story of modern Job is heading for a tragic final.Kafkowska's spirited tale of a fictional character inspired by real biographies: Ryszard Kapuściński, Andrzej Wajda or the father of screenwriter Henryk Holland. Attacked by the party press and brilliantly received by the audience, the award-winning classic of the Cinema of Moral Distress in Gdynia with a great role by Zbigniew Zapasiewicz. An excellent description of the Polish People's Republic of the Gierko era, but also a universal story, because the ominous words of the film lawyer: “Everything can be proved. Guilt is a flexible concept, it depends on the exposure” - at all times they sound current.