When Time Location


3:30 pm - 5:30 pm


Austin Public Library (Yarborough)
2200 Hancock Dr
Austin, TX 78756

Polish Monthly Movie Screening: THE QUACK / ZNACHOR – English subtitles.

Posted on 30-06-2017 , by: Art Gmurowski , 0 Comments

We are presenting a drama/romance based on the 1937 novel by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz , “The Quack” (“Znachor”). Please note a different than usual location (but same as in June.)

WHAT: THE QUACK / ZNACHOR, 1982 – 128 min (two parts) – English subtitles.

WHERE: Austin Public Library, Yarborough Branch, 2200 Hancock Dr., Austin, TX, 78756, tel: 512-974-8820.

COST: FREE

CONTACT: joanna.guttlehr@gmail.com

Director: Jerzy Hoffman
Screenwriters: Jerzy Hoffman, Jacek Fuksiewicz
Director of photography: Jerzy Gościk
Music: Piotr Marczewski
Cast: Jerzy Bińczycki, Anna Dymna, Tomasz Stockinger, Bernard Ładysz, Artur Barciś, and others.

Synopsis:
Abandoned by his wife and daughter, a famous surgeon drowns his despair in alcohol walking from one bar to another. Attacked and robbed, he sustains serious injuries to his head and falls into an amnesia. He does not remember who he is, wanders from place to place. His medical knowledge becomes useful again in different circumstances and he becomes a village healer.
“The Quack”, based on a novel by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz, is the second film adaptation of the story – the first with the same title was released in 1937. This touching story features some of the most wonderful Polish actors of the 20th century.

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