Hospital of the Transfiguration
In this adaptation of an unnerving World War II novel by science-fiction titan Stanislaw Lem, a new doctor at a grim psychiatric hospital faces an all-too-real horrific future when the Nazis take over. Screening with Roly Poly (Andrzej Wajda, 30m).
Prior to publishing his debut science-fiction novel The Astronauts, Stanislaw Lem drew upon his experiences in medical school to write a novel set during the grim realities of World War II (and swiftly suppressed). In Edward Zebrowski’s unnerving adaptation, a young new doctor at a rural mental hospital struggles to uphold humane standards and deal with the motley staff, including aloof head doctors, an eccentric poet, and a delicious cynic with whom he falls in love. Their troubled sanctuary then faces even harder decisions—and a very real dystopia—with the arrival of the Nazis.
“At the other end of the Lemiverse, Edward Zebrowski's 1979 adaptation of Lem's first novel, Hospital of the Transfiguration, is as sensitively structured as it is beautifully lit.” —Ed Park, The Village Voice
Screening with:
Roly Poly
Andrzej Wajda | Poland | 1968 | 35mm | 30m
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