Scalpel, Please

Drama

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Jiří Svoboda

Status Released

Release Date 1986-03-01

Storyline

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.

"Theoretical chance is not enough..."