Pavel Hobl
Director
The Borrowed Face (1965)
It is the 1930s. Physician Bartos devotedly attends poor patients in the city suburbs, at the same time researching the possibilities of regeneration of human tissues after transplantation. His former colleague Rosen, now working as an assistant at the private clinic of surgeon Kirchenbruch, considers the research a mere utopia. The disappointed Bartos, trying to verify his theories, therefore accepts the outrageous proposal of Marion, owner of a brothel - to surgically replace the face of her lover, the wanted thief Cutter, with the face of murdered Father Hopsasa. Bartos is well paid but his successful operation remains a secret.
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction
Keywords: tmdb.body-swap, tmdb.identity-swap, imdb.cover-identity, imdb.criminal-on-the-run, imdb.science-gone-wrong, imdb.face-transplant, imdb.transplant-gone-wrong + 44 more, imdb.central-europe, imdb.title-same-as-book, imdb.literature-on-screen, imdb.czech-literature-on-screen, imdb.european-literature-on-screen, imdb.czech-noir, imdb.euro-noir, imdb.man-on-the-run, imdb.20th-century-literature-on-screen, imdb.science-fiction-literature-on-screen, imdb.crime-literature-on-screen, imdb.czech-crime-literature-on-screen, imdb.czech-science-fiction-literature-on-screen, imdb.1960s-literature-on-screen, imdb.european-science-fiction-literature-on-screen, imdb.european-crime-literature-on-screen, imdb.futuretro-aesthetics, imdb.chased-by-police, imdb.pretending-to-be-someone-else, imdb.serial-killer, imdb.identity, imdb.identity-crisis, imdb.scientist, imdb.doctor, imdb.criminal, imdb.on-the-run, imdb.priest, imdb.murder, imdb.killer-on-the-run, imdb.psychotronic-film, imdb.based-on-short-story, imdb.plastic-surgeon, imdb.killer, imdb.murderer, imdb.neo-noir, imdb.wanted-man, imdb.scientific-experiment, imdb.mistaken-identity, imdb.assumed-identity, imdb.new-identity, imdb.body-swap, imdb.20th-century, imdb.cult-film, imdb.1930s
Production Companies: Filmové studio Barrandov
Country: Czechoslovakia
Languages:
Czech
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Runtime: 85 min.
Released: Dec. 24, 1965
Status: Released
Certification: NR