Life As a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease ( Zycie jako smiertelna choroba przenoszona droga plciowa )

Life As a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease (DVD) (*)

$26.99

Original Title: Zycie jako smiertelna choroba przenoszona droga plciowa
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Moscow International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
Hungarian ( Subtitles )
Polish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
91 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2000 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Poland ( Russia, Eastern Europe )

Directed By:
Krzysztof Zanussi

Written By:
Krzysztof Zanussi

Actors:
Zbigniew Zapasiewicz ..... Tomasz Berg
Krystyna Janda ..... Anna
Tadeusz Bradecki ..... Monk Marek
Monika Krzywkowska ..... Hanka
Pawel Okraska ..... Filip
Jerzy Radziwilowicz ..... Karol
Szymon Bobrowski ..... Professor
Aleksander Fabisiak ..... Singer
Redbad Klynstra ..... French actress
Xavier Schliwanski ..... Tomasz's grandmother
Marek Brodzki ..... Asystent profesora
Jola Cora ..... Mother
Jacek Kadlubowski ..... Assistant
Maria Klejdysz ..... Proffesor's secretary
Krzysztof Kulinski
Monika Kwiatkowska
Tomasz Lipinski
Teresa Marczewska
Anna Mucha
Zuzanna Paluch
Michal Sieczkowski
Pawel Walecki

Synopsis:

The title of this film - taken from graffiti on a wall near director Krzysztof Zanussi's home - provides ironic commentary on its subject, which revolves around a doctor's questioning of his beliefs when he is confronted with terminal illness. Tomasz is first seen working as the doctor on the set of a French movie production about the life of Saint Bernard. After his work is finished, he returns to Warsaw, where he makes the unpleasant discovery that he has cancer. Tomasz' only hope is an expensive operation in Paris, and he is forced to ask his ex-wife Anna - now remarried to a self-important yuppie - for money. Anna writes him a check, but when he goes to Paris for the operation, Tomasz is informed that his condition has become inoperable. Facing imminent death, he begins to question the beliefs he has held all his life and, with a sense of fatalistic liberation, starts to experiment with both his own life and those of others.

Krzysztof Zanussi's Zycie jako smiertelna choroba przenoszona droga plciowa (Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease) follows the final weeks of Tomasz Berg (Zbigniew Zapasiewicz), an intelligent, though egotistical and cynical doctor. His journey is complemented by that of Filip (Pawel Okraska), a young, doubt-ridden medical student. At the heart of the film lies the question of human reconciliation with death. Unlike Zanussi's Illuminacja (Illumination, 1971), which questions the meaning of life and death, Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease does not question death's inevitable nature but rather offers a meditation on how we come to terms with that which nature itself attempts to battle.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 08 July, 2013.