Double Role

(1999)

★ 7.3 IMDb · 3 votes

Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi

Year: 1999

Runtime: 110 мин

Country: Czech Republic, France

Director: Jaromil Jireš

Cast: Tereza Brodská, Jan Hartl, Карел Роден, Slávka Budínová, Lubor Tokoš, Zdeněk Junák, Roman Vojtek, Vladimír Hauser, Ladislav Kolář, Dana Poláková

Plot

An intimate psychological film which elaborates the Faustian theme about the dispute between the body and the soul - a study on human identity. Two young doctors carry out the surgical exchange of the brains of two women who are dying after a car accident - a young girl and member of a criminal gang, and a lonely seventy-year-old associate professor of oriental studies. The young girl wakes from the operation thinking like the elderly intellectual and tries in vain to live with her new identity. (https://www.filmovyprehled.cz/en/film/22344/double-role)