Scalpel, Please (1986)
Overview
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.
Cast
Miroslav Macháček
Surgeon
Jana Brejchová
Barbara Brylska
Med. assistant
Radoslav Brzobohatý
Ondřej Pavelka
Jana Krausová
Emma Černá
Radovan Lukavský
Věra Galatíková
František Řehák
Eva Trejtnarová-Hudečková
Helga Čočková
Marie Durnová
Zita
Josef Abrhám
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