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The Borrowed Face
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The Borrowed Face

1965-12-24 · 85 min · ★ 7.0

Comedy · Science Fiction

It is the 1930s. Physician Bartos devotedly attends poor patients in the city suburbs, at the same time researching the possibilities of regeneration of human tissues after transplantation. His former colleague Rosen, now working as an assistant at the private clinic of surgeon Kirchenbruch, considers the research a mere utopia. The disappointed Bartos, trying to verify his theories, therefore accepts the outrageous proposal of Marion, owner of a brothel - to surgically replace the face of her lover, the wanted thief Cutter, with the face of murdered Father Hopsasa. Bartos is well paid but his successful operation remains a secret.

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Directors
Pavel Hobl
Production companies
Filmové studio Barrandov
Countries
Czechoslovakia
Status
Released

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Vlastimil BrodskýVlastimil BrodskýDr. Bartoš
Fred DelmareFred DelmareUrban Kráječ
František FilipovskýFrantišek Filipovskýpáter Hopsasa
Marie VášováMarie VášováMarion
Martin RůžekMartin Růžekprofesor Kirchenbruch
Nina PopelíkováNina PopelíkováLuisa Kirchenbruchová
Jana BrejchováJana BrejchováNarcisa Kirchenbruchová
Jaroslav MarvanJaroslav Marvankomisař
Jiří ValaJiří ValaDr. Rosen
Zdenka ProcházkováZdenka ProcházkováHelena Rosenová
Zlatomír Vaceklupič Had
Karel EffaKarel Effalupič Hmaták
Svatopluk Skládalošetřovatel Straka
Raoul SchránilRaoul Schránillékař Herr von
Antonín JedličkaAntonín Jedličkadetektiv z Liberce
Milan Kindldetektiv z Liberce
Jarmila BechyňováJarmila Bechyňováhysterka
Václav WassermanVáclav Wassermankomorník Albert
Jiřina Bíláhost
Anny Freyováhost

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