Hospital of the Transfiguration

Hospital of the Transfiguration (1979)

28 Mar 1979 • Drama • 1h 30m
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The film is set in 1943 in a mental asylum in the country. But this is an unusual hospital: there are several incurable schizophrenic cases, staff is bit strange and a writer has voluntarily entered the clinic because he is "peculiar" and a drug addict. Then the German Gestapo arrives. The commandant asks for the list of patients, sorts out the "Aryan" doctors from the others on a return trip, and herds everyone into trucks for evacuation to the extermination camps. A young doctor momentarily escapes by covering himself under a pile of laundry in the basement, and then escapes to the woods just as the Nazi soldiers appear.

Edward Zebrowski
Director
Michal Komar, Stanislaw Lem, Edward Zebrowski
Writer
Piotr Dejmek, Jerzy Binczycki, Henryk Bista
Starring

Language: Polish, German
Awards: 3 wins
Country: Poland
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7.2

IMDb (436 votes)
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