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At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

it is simple to define it as one of the most important films of my youth. the performance - memorable Jerzy Binczycki-, the story, the moral lesson, the film as way to the book, all preserves the images of an admirable work. a doctor, his amnesia, his sufferance and the ways to be useful to a small community. the meet. and the truth , after decades, as price of long pain years. nothing surprising for the Polish cinema. but splendid for the small detail to be a fresh story today and demonstration of beautiful art. short, a film who must see it.

'Professor Wilczur', the adaptation by Jerzy Hoffman of a beloved literary best—seller, is a clever Polish melodrama about a hugely talented surgeon who becomes an amnesiac and, under the name Antoni Kosiba, wanders through rural Poland in search of jobs. At last he settles with an Orthodox family and cures the son of the host by performing an orthopedic intervention. Then Antoni passes from orthopedics to neurosurgery.The script is, like the novel, replete with the devices of a melodrama. The cinematography is delicious; the cast seems mostly average, except for the hot blonde widow who tempts, unsuccessfully, poor Antoni.

I loved this film. I saw it years ago while living in Romania. Here, in Spain, nobody has ever heard of it unfortunately. Afterwards I read the book, it's absolutely fantastic (there are two novels about this character - Znachor and Profesor Wilczur) and of course searched the web in order to find a way of purchasing the DVD with English or french subtitles as I don't understand at all polish... but by now there is no such edition. It's a pity, this movie is great. After so many years lots of details are almost gone from my memory, but I remember it as a beautiful film, great actors, great music... I'd like to highly recommend it to everybody, but as I already said, there's the problem of the language.

An excellent story about a talented surgeon who is abandoned by his wife with a young daughter. Stricken with grief he gets drunk, is robbed and badly beaten. As a result he suffers from amnesia and for years wonders from settlement to settlement working as a laborer. Finally he gets a job in a mill and driven by an impulse helps mill-owner's son to walk again after an accident. Gradually people start crowding to see the famous 'quack'. In the meantime, in the neighboring town a young lady who works as a shop assistant is courted by a son of local count, who opposes his son's choice. The lady and the young count get badly hurt in a motorcycle accident and the quack saves their lives. Arrested for practicing medicine without qualifications he gets rescued by the grateful patients. During the court hearings he regains his memory and realizes that the young lady he saved is his daughter. Well acted, good script - well worth watching. One can only hope that one day it will released on a DVD with English subtitles.