Scalpel, Please(1986)

movie - first aired/released 1986-03-01 - audience 7.6

Directed by Jiří Svoboda

An aging professor at a Prague neurological clinic is forced to confront his personal values and the harsh boundaries of medical science. Already burdened by the ultimate questions of life and death, his ethical convictions are put to the test by Víťa, a young patient with an inoperable tumor.