
A biology professor, Adam enters a hospital for observation. He is a loner and a serious-minded man, who dislikes any display of emotions. He spends three months in the hospital while being tested. After observing patients and hospital routines around him from a distance, he learns that he will need a kidney transplant. Meanwhile his personal and professional life is falling apart: he refuses his wife's offer to donate the kidney for him; the scientific problem he was working on has been solved elsewhere. In the end Adam cracks under the prolonged pressure, waiting for the sound of an ambulance bringing a moribund patient whose kidney may be used for the transplant.
Cast

Zbigniew Zapasiewicz
Adam Małecki

Maja Komorowska
Marta Małecka

Aleksander Bardini
Professor

Kazimierz Dejunowicz
Nowicki

Jan Englert
Andrzej Jezierski

Piotr Fronczewski
Doctor

Jerzy Kamas
Priest

Zygmunt Malawski
Zbigniew Woźniak

Marian Opania
Staszek

Czesław Wołłejko
Patient

Zygmunt Zintel
Former Camp Prisoner

Jolanta Bohdal
Gosia
Czesław Byszewski
Doctor

Małgorzata Leśniewska
Ward Nurse

Wiesława Niemyska
Nurse

Alina Szpak
Nurse
Jerzy Wunderlich
Journalist

Anna Jaraczówna
Antosia (uncredited)
Crew

Edward Żebrowski
Director, Screenplay
Urszula Śliwińska
Editor
Łucja Ośko
Assistant Editor
Jan Hesse
Director of Photography

Wojciech Wójcik
First Assistant Director
Joanna Krauze
Assistant Director
Adam T. Nowakowski
Production Design
Zbigniew Hartwig
Camera Operator
Jan Ossowski
Assistant Camera
Jerzy Tomczuk
Assistant Camera
Ewa Braun
Costume Design
Krystyna Leszczyńska
Assistant Makeup Artist
Maria Papińska
Makeup Artist

Stanisław Różewicz
Supervising Art Director
Andrzej Sadowski
Sound Assistant
Małgorzata Jaworska
Sound

Andrzej Korzyński
Music
Teresa Gałkowska-Lesman
Set Decoration
Marek Dąbrowski
Production Consultant
Zygmunt Filipowicz
Production Consultant
Włodzimierz Śliwiński
Production Manager
Roman Kowalski
Assistant Production Manager
Pawel Mann
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