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The Quack (1982)
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Original name: Znachor
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A famous surgeon is beaten by drunken bullies, loses his memory and cannot recollect who he was before. He gets to a village, lives in a not so well to do family and becomes the Quack - he slowly regains his talent for medicine and saves the lives of several village patients.
Style:
touching, serious, emotional, atmospheric, sentimental, realistic, sincere, surreal, gloomy, offbeat
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
memory loss, life is a bitch, polish, surgeon, prodigy, daughter, love and romance, healer, losing-it hero, witch doctor, amnesia, village life, downfall, road not taken, social relations, medicine, estrangement, true love, motorcycle accident, rich and poor, changing lives, visceral, fish out of water, surgical operation, saving a life ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 30s
Place:
poland
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