The quack

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Movie
German title The quack
Original title Znachor
Country of production Poland
original language Polish
Publishing year 1982
length 133 minutes
Germany: 128 minutes
Rod
Director Jerzy Hoffman
script Jacek Fuksiewicz
Jerzy Hoffman
production Zespół Filmowy Zodiak
music Piotr Marczewski
camera Jerzy Gościk
cut Zenon Piórecki
occupation

Der Kurpfuscher (original title: Znachor ) is a Polish melodrama directed by Jerzy Hoffman from 1982 , based on the novel of the same name by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz from 1937. The first film was made in the year the book was published ( Znachor , director: Michał Waszyński ).

action

The film consists of two parts with separate titles: "Antoni Kosiba" and "Maria Jolanta Wilczur". The first part begins with an operation performed by Professor Rafał Wilczur, the most famous cardiac surgeon of the time, and his assistant Dobraniecki. After the operation, the professor hastily leaves the clinic to celebrate his eighth wedding anniversary with his wife. After arriving at his estate, however, he does not find his wife, but only a farewell letter from her. In the letter, she confesses that she could no longer bear his fame, that she does not feel worthy of him, and that she is leaving with her beloved daughter Marysia. She also asks her husband not to look for her. Professor Wilczur leaves his country estate in mourning and walks aimlessly away. There he meets Samuel Obiedziński, a beggar and drinker who asks for support “for a mortgage on the Polish liquor monopoly”. The professor gives him all his change, for which, out of gratitude, he invites him to drink together. In the bar, Wilczur's wealth is noticed by other bar patrons. Drunk, the professor is brought to a field by them, where he is robbed and beaten up. He loses his memory from the beating.

Professor Wilczur becomes a vagabond who has no documents and does not know who he is. He is arrested several times and convicted of vagrancy. During one of his arrests, he steals Antoni Franciszek Kosiba's documents from the office where they register him as a prisoner. From now on he will take on further work under this name. Looking for work, he meets Prokop, who employs him as a mill worker. There he meets Prokop's son Wasylko, who cannot walk because he fell off a ladder and broke his legs. He learns from a worker in the mill that Prokop's children are said to be cursed because he is said to have stolen from his brother. Kosiba takes over the operation from Wasylko, during which he breaks his bones again and places them correctly. He cured the handicapped and became famous as an excellent quack.

Kosiba buys the necessary tools, supplies and medical bandages from a local shop where the girl Marysia works as a saleswoman. The girl seems familiar to Kosiba, but because of his memory loss , he cannot remember her. Count Leszek Czyński, who proposes marriage to Marysia, falls in love with her. However, both are caught in a motorcycle accident caused by Zenek's jealousy and revenge. Both are in critical condition and Kosiba is helping. The Count's parents take their son with them, and their doctor, Pawlicki, leaves Marysia, who is in poorer condition, unaided because, in his opinion, she is already dying. Kosiba decides to have an operation to save the girl's life. The surgical tools needed for the operation are stolen by Pawlicki, the local doctor, and Kosiba successfully performs a skull trepanation . Meanwhile, the parents take the young count to the hospital and inform him that Marysia has died. The count leaves Poland to recover. Marysia is slowly recovering. Count Czyński returns to Poland and plans to commit suicide at Marysia's grave. When he is about to leave the house, he gives his valet Franciszek a farewell letter and asks him about Marysia's grave. Franciszek is surprised to tell the count that his lover is alive, she is fine and she lives in the mill. Czyński hurries to the mill in a carriage full of cut roses. Startled by her son's farewell letter, Czyński's parents accept Marysia as their daughter-in-law. Kosiba is sentenced to three years in prison for theft. Out of gratitude for Kosiba provides the couple a lawyer one, the professor Dobraniecki as experts in the retrial brings. Professor Dobraniecki admits that all treatments Kosiba performed were carried out in accordance with medical practice. After Marysia was summoned as a witness , the professor recognizes the quack professor Rafał Wilczur, who has been missing for years. As a result, the quack is released and acquitted of charges against him. At the same time, Marysia turns out to be his daughter.

production

Filming locations for Der Kurpfuscher were Bielsk Podlaski , Radziejowice (Castle of the Czyńskis), Skolimów (watermill) and Piekary in the Piątek municipality .

The film premiered on April 12, 1982 in Poland. About a year and a half later, on August 19, 1983, the film was released in GDR cinemas .

The first broadcast in the first program of the GDR television took place on April 20, 1985. Exactly six months later, on November 20, 1985, the film was broadcast for the first time in the Federal Republic on Hessen Drei .

reception

The lexicon of international films described Der Kurpfuscher as a "[g] ut played, solidly staged melodrama", which appears "sometimes ridiculous in the somewhat striking representation of" good "and" bad ", then again moving and touching".

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