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(Redirected from Rough Treatment) 1978 Polish film
Without Anesthesia
Directed byAndrzej Wajda
Written byAgnieszka Holland
Andrzej Wajda
Starring
CinematographyEdward Klosinski
Music byJerzy Derfel
Release date
  • November 27, 1978 (1978-11-27)
Running time131 minutes
CountryPoland
LanguagePolish

Without Anesthesia (alternative English title: Rough Treatment) is the English-language title for the Polish film Bez znieczulenia, released in 1978, directed by Andrzej Wajda. It was entered in the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.

According to the screenplay, Without Anesthesia takes place in the 1960s. Jerzy (Zbigniew Zapasiewicz), a well-known journalist and foreign correspondent who reports on wars, revolutions and guerrilla movements in the third world, is a man whose personal life and career are falling apart.

The main character is based on Ryszard Kapuściński, the prominent Polish journalist and author of the "reportage" school.

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References

  1. "Festival de Cannes: Without Anesthesia". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-05-24.
  2. Tomasz Łubieński, "Kapuściński's pupil?" Gazeta Wyborcza, 3 March 2010, p. 13 (in Polish) ("Ryszard Kapuściński was the original model for the main character of Andrzej Wajda's film Without Anesthesia.")

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