WITHOUT ANESTHESIA - DKF

Prod. Poland 1978, drama, 125 '.

Directed by Andrzej WAJDA, performed by Z. Zapasiewicz, E. Dałkowska, A. Seweryn, K. Janda, R.Wilhelmi, E.Krakowska, K.Kaczor.
Awards: Golden Lions at FPFF in Gdańsk, Jury Prize at the IFF in Cannes.
A poignant diagnosis of the society of the late 1970s, a portrait of a man surrounded by the system and his own weaknesses, one of the most penetrating analyses of the moral crisis in Polish cinema.
A depressing picture of the Polish political and social reality of the second half of the 1970s, and at the same time a critical diagnosis of attitudes at a time of mistrust and oppression by the system.
A popular reporter — modeled on the character of Ryszard Kapuściński — returns from another journalistic expedition to Poland. Surprisingly, he assumes that he becomes — without any explanation — the object of organized obscenity...