Without Anesthesia Explained

Without Anesthesia
Director:	Andrzej Wajda
Music:	Jerzy Derfel
Cinematography:	Edward Klosinski
Runtime:	131 minutes
Country:	Poland
Language:	Polish

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.^[1]

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.^[2]

Cast

• Zbigniew Zapasiewicz – Jerzy Michalowski
• Ewa Dalkowska – Ewa Michalowska
• Andrzej Seweryn – Jerzy Rosciszewski
• Krystyna Janda – Agata
• Emilia Krakowska – Wanda Jakowicz
• Roman Wilhelmi – Bronski
• Kazimierz Kaczor – Editor-in-chief
• Iga Mayr – Ewa's Mother
• Aleksandra Jasienska – Olenka
• Maria Salinger – Gabcia
• Stefania Iwinska – Józefa
• Halina Golanko – Halina Lukasik
• Jerzy Stuhr – Jerzy Porebowicz
• Magda Teresa Wójcik – Joanna Cichon
• Danuta Balicka-Satanowska – Judge

See also

• Cinema of Poland
• List of Polish language films

Notes and References

1. Web site: Festival de Cannes: Without Anesthesia . 2009-05-24. festival-cannes.com.
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.")