Hospital of the Transfiguration

1979 · Movie · 90 min. · Poland

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.

Direction Edward Zebrowski

Cast Piotr Dejmek · Jerzy Binczycki · Henryk Bista · Ewa Dalkowska · Gustaw Holoubek · Zygmunt Hubner · Ryszard Kotys · Klaus Piontek · Wojciech Pszoniak · Zbigniew Zapasiewicz · Katarzyna Ejmont · Adam Gessler · Anna Jaraczówna · Elzbieta Karkoszka · Wladyslaw Kowalski