Hospital of The Transfiguration

– The film is set in 1943 in a mental asylum in the country. But this is an unusual hospital: there ar..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.20 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 30 Minutes
Release Year:
1979
Original Name:
Szpital przemienienia
Hospital of the Transfiguration (1979) - Also known as Szpital przemienienia

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.

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Release Date:

28 Mar 1979

Language:

Polish, German

Director:

Edward Zebrowski

Writer:

Michal Komar, Stanislaw Lem (novel), Edward Zebrowski

Main Actors:

Piotr Dejmek, Jerzy Binczycki, Henryk Bista, Ewa Dalkowska

Plot:

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.

Awards:

3 wins.

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.2/10