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Double Role (1999)

Directed by Jaromil Jireš

Overview

An intimate psychological film which elaborates the Faustian theme about the dispute between the body and the soul - a study on human identity. Two young doctors carry out the surgical exchange of the brains of two women who are dying after a car accident - a young girl and member of a criminal gang, and a lonely seventy-year-old associate professor of oriental studies. The young girl wakes from the operation thinking like the elderly intellectual and tries in vain to live with her new identity. (https://www.filmovyprehled.cz/en/film/22344/double-role)

Length 110 minutes

Actors

Tereza Brodská | Jan Hartl | Karel Roden | Slávka Budínová | Lubor Tokoš | Vladimír Hauser | Ladislav Kolář | Zdeněk Junák | Roman Vojtek | Dana Poláková | Petr Horký