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 ...
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Title: Hospital of the Transfiguration (1979)
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Piotr Dejmek | ... | Stefan | |
| Jerzy Binczycki | ... | Engineer Andrzej Nowacki | |
| Henryk Bista | ... | Dr. Kauters | |
| Ewa Dalkowska | ... | Dr. Nosilewska | |
| Gustaw Holoubek | ... | Writer Zygmunt Sekulowski | |
| Zygmunt Hübner | ... | Dr. Pajaczkowski (as Zygmunt Hubner) | |
| Ryszard Kotys | ... | Józef | |
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Klaus Piontek | ... | SS Officer Thiesdorf |
| Wojciech Pszoniak | ... | Dr. Marglewski | |
| Zbigniew Zapasiewicz | ... | Dr. Rygier | |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Katarzyna Ejmont | ... | Patient |
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Adam Gessler | ... | Patient |
| Anna Jaraczówna | ... | Patient | |
| Elzbieta Karkoszka | ... | Patient | |
| Wladyslaw Kowalski | ... | Patient | |
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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. Written by Polish Cinema Database <http://info.fuw.edu.pl/Filmy/>
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28 March 1979 (Poland) See more »Also Known As:
Hospital der Verklärung See more »Filming Locations:
Tworki Mental Hospital, Pruszków, Mazowieckie, PolandCompany Credits
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The Lem's novel has nothing to do with this movie. It is a deeply philosophical piece even surprising for a young man he was while writing this novel. Of course, a person such as Lem matures quickly during the war. I agree that the movie is dull - too bad it's come to be closely associated with the novel by many people who either don't read much or don't have access to a good translation. Contrary to the movie, the mental ward and its patients in the novel are not the main topic - it is an illustration to the madness of the humanity in general. The novel might be considered as a dialog of the author with himself, which is typical for Lem: his characters are often imbued with his own personality.