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Wikipedia article
'The Quack' is a 1982 Polish drama film directed by Jerzy Hoffman. The screenplay was written based on the novel by Tadeusz Doga-Mostowicz written in 1937. The first adaptation of the book was filmed the same year the book was written ('The Quack', directed by Micha Waszyski).
The film was shot near Bielsk Podlaski.
Plot
Professor Rafa Wilczur (Jerzy Biczycki) was a successful surgeon in Poland in the early 20th century, whose wife leaves him with their small daughter for another man. Wilczur meets a man named Samuel who asks Wilczur to help him financially. The two men go to a bar and get drunk. Wilczur gets robbed and beaten up and loses his memory after hitting his head. Suffering from amnesia, he ends up in a small village, working as a farm laborer for years and is known there as Kosiba. He eventually starts healing the other villagers, and performs surgery on an injured young woman Maria (Anna Dymna). The existing doctor in the area (Andrzej Kopiczyski) sues Wilczur for using the doctor's surgical instruments. In court for this case, he is recognized as the missing famous surgeon by an expert witness Dobraniecki in the case (Piotr Fronczewski), and he then begins to retain his memory. He then realizes that the young woman he saved is his daughter, and the two are reunited. He is told that his former wife died of tuberculosis shortly after leaving him, and the daughter ended up in an orphanage. Maria then marries Leszek (Tomasz Stockinger), the son of a local nobleman.
Cast
* Jerzy Biczycki Professor Rafa Wilczur / Antoni Kosiba, aka The Quack
* Anna Dymna Maria Jolanta Wilczur and Beata Wilczur
* Tomasz Stockinger Leszek Czyski
* Bernard adysz Prokop
* Piotr Fronczewski Professor Dobraniecki
* Zenek
* Artur Barci Wasylko, son of Prokop
* Andrzej Kopiczyski Doctor Pawlicki
* Witalis, Prokop's farmhand
* Irena Burawska Prokop's wife
* Genowefa Korska
* Tadeusz Kousznik Franciszek, butler of the Czyski family
* Remigiusz Rogacki
* Boena Dykiel Sonia, Prokop's daughter in law
* Igor miaowski Count Czyski, Leszek's father
* Maria Homerska Countess Czyska, Leszek's mother
* Andrzej Szalawski chairman of the court
* Jerzy Braszka
* Jerzy Trela Samuel Obiedziski
* Gustaw Lutkiewicz police leader
* Henryk Dudziski
* Wodzimierz Adamski Zenek's comrade
* Arkadiusz Bazak public prosecutor
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