Title: Bogowie
Original Title: Bogowie
Year: 2014
Info
- Country: Poland
- Language: Polish
- Length: 120 Minutes (2 hour)
- Genre: Drama Biography
- Distributor: Surtsey Films
- Age rating: 15 (Suitable only for 15 years and over)
Release Dates
- UK: October 24 2014
Plot
'Bogowie' is a polish movie directed by Lukasz Palkowski and starring Tomasz Kot, Piotr Glowacki and Magdalena Czerwinska.
This film is based on real events. It focuses on the story of Professor Zbigniew Relinga, the first surgeon that manage to successfully do a heart transplant in Poland in the 80's despite all his colleagues opinions who were against the procedure. 'Bogowie' pay homage to a man who worked hard to develop a new wat to conceive the modern medicine, ignoring all the ideological, cultural and religious impositions from his mentors and colleagues. 'Bogowie' represents the development of a new era in modern medicine and how a man was brave enough to break the rules just to save a life.
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Trivia
There are cameos of two main co-workers of Religa as members of bioethics commission: Marian Zembala (first from left) and Andrzej Bochenek (first from right).
Marian Opania and Cezary Kosinski have already played doctors on a medical soap opera 'Na dobre i na zle' (1999), where Tomasz Kot also had an appearance as a patient and later the hospital's business partner.
Dr. Zbigniew Religa was a heavy smoker, what is depicted in the film. Eventually died in 2009 from lung cancer.
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