A costume film set in early 20th-century Poland, where a renowned doctor suffers amnesia and finds himself a homeless man roaming the country, helping the little people - he knows what to do, but doesn't know why, and doesn't remember that he's a doctor. His past will gradually return through his daughter, and his former colleagues. The two screenwriters, Marcin Baczynski and Mariusz Kuczewski, have done a fine job with Tadeusz Dolega-Mostowicz's novel.
It's hard to criticize a film like this: the form is Netflix standard, but the film takes on substance through its characters and actors and a script that features elements of class struggle. For he treats the poor, the peasants. But he's prevented from practicing. The plot revolves around his daughter, who strikes up a relationship with a rich man.
The character of Anna Szymanczyk, the woman who welcomes the amnesiac doctor into her mill, is a strong woman who controls her destiny. Leszed Lichota, in the role of the doctor, is also memorable, even if he regularly lapses into unsubtle melodrama.
The film ends in court, as he is accused of practicing medicine without a license. We won't reveal the outcome. But all the dramatic arcs converge on the same point.
It's hard to criticize a film like this: the form is Netflix standard, but the film takes on substance through its characters and actors and a script that features elements of class struggle. For he treats the poor, the peasants. But he's prevented from practicing. The plot revolves around his daughter, who strikes up a relationship with a rich man.
The character of Anna Szymanczyk, the woman who welcomes the amnesiac doctor into her mill, is a strong woman who controls her destiny. Leszed Lichota, in the role of the doctor, is also memorable, even if he regularly lapses into unsubtle melodrama.
The film ends in court, as he is accused of practicing medicine without a license. We won't reveal the outcome. But all the dramatic arcs converge on the same point.