Skalpel, Prosim (1985)
Directed by Jiri Svobada
Run Time - 110 min. |
Countries - Czechia |
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Synopsis by Eleanor Mannikka
In a slick ER melodrama from director Jiri Svobada, life's trials and tribulations wend their way through the examination room of a neurosurgeon (Miroslav Machacek in the form of diverse patients with ailments that range from the casual to the fatal. A friend of the doctor's is diagnosed with a tumor, an active and seemingly healthy woman is diagnosed with leukemia, and a little boy has a brain tumor that the doctor believes will be fatal, operation or no operation. When the boy's grandfather insists that the operation be performed, events take an unexpected turn that challenges everyone involved.