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Double Role (1999)

Double Role (1999)

Science Fiction Drama
Release Date: 1999, March 18
Directors: Jaromil Jireš
Countries: Czech Republic, France
Production: Česká televize, Česká televize, Les Films des Tournelles, Les Films des Tournelles
Cast: Karel Roden, Vladimír Hauser, Jan Hartl, Roman Vojtek, Ladislav Kolář, Dana Poláková, Tereza Brodská, Lubor Tokoš, Zdeněk Junák, Slávka Budínová

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)