Znachor

Production and year: Poland 1982 Genre: melodrama, social drama Director: Jerzy Hoffman Screenplay, music: Hoffman and Jacek Fuksiewicz, Jerzy Gościk Cast: Jerzy Bińczycki, Anna Dymna, Bernard Ładysz Medical theme: amnesia, quackery Description: After his wife leaves him with their daughter, a prominent Polish surgeon is attacked upon leaving a bar and loses his memory. He wanders around Poland doing odd jobs until he finds work at a mill. There, after treating a poorly set fracture of the fibula and tibia in both legs of the farmer’s son, he becomes the local quack doctor. He helps many people, becoming a competitor and a huge threat to the local “quack.” In my opinion, the most outstanding Polish film with a medical storyline in the background.