Movie Drama
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Tomasz, a doctor, and atheist, is diagnosed with cancer. His ex-wife offers him the money for treatment in Paris, but his lung cancer is past the operating stage. Facing imminent death, he questions the beliefs he has held all his life and starts experimenting with both his own life and those of others.
Zbigniew Zapasiewicz Krystyna Janda Tadeusz Bradecki Monika Krzywkowska Paweł Okraska Jerzy Radziwiłowicz Szymon Bobrowski Aleksander Fabisiak Xavier Schliwanski Teresa Marczewska Redbad Klynstra-Komarnicki Michal Sieczkowski Dominique Lesage François Dunoyer Dominique Lesage Małgorzata Pritulak Maciej Robakiewicz Teresa Marczewska Marek Brodzki Jacek Kadłubowski Krzysztof Kuliński Pawel Walecki Zuzanna Paluch Stanisława Celińska Anna Mucha Maria Klejdysz Helena Girardin Tomasz Lipiński Grzegorz Pacek Arkadiusz Korol Adam Guibourger Artur Guibourger Jerzy Nasierowski Andrzej Soltysik Magdalena Walach Krzysztof Zanussi
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