Scalpel, Please

(1986)

★ 7.6 IMDb · 8 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1986

Runtime: 114 мин

Country: Czechoslovakia

Director: Jiří Svoboda

Cast: Miroslav Macháček, Jana Brejchová, Барбара Брыльска, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Ondřej Pavelka, Jana Krausová, Emma Černá, Daniel Krcho, Radovan Lukavský, Věra Galatíková

Plot

An aging professor at a Prague neurological clinic is forced to confront his personal values and the harsh boundaries of medical science. Already burdened by the ultimate questions of life and death, his ethical convictions are put to the test by Víťa, a young patient with an inoperable tumor.