Tomasz, a doctor, and atheist, is diagnosed with cancer. His ex-wife offers him the money for treatment in Paris, but his lung cancer is past the operating stage. Facing imminent death, he questions the beliefs he has held all his life and starts experimenting with both his own life and those of others.
Acting
Zapasiewicz's crumbling intellectual arrogance
Writing
Dialogue that actually sounds like smart people talking
Direction
Zanussi's clinical compassion — no sentimentality, all feeling
Director
Krzysztof Zanussi
Zbigniew Zapasiewicz
Tomasz Berg
Krystyna Janda
Anna
Tadeusz Bradecki
Monk Marik
Paweł Okraska
Filip
Jerzy Radziwiłowicz
Starszy wioskowy
Szymon Bobrowski
Karol
Aleksander Fabisiak
Profesor
Teresa Marczewska
The musician's mother
Michał Sieczkowski
Chory muzyk
Dominique Lesage
Św. Bernard w filmie "Bernard i Abelard"
François Dunoyer
Doctor in Paris
Dominique Lesage
Saint Bernard in the movie
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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