Without Anesthesia
1978 · 131 MIN · IMDB 7.3 · 762 VOTES · DIR. Andrzej Wajda
Overview
A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show featuring questions and answers on a world conference by a panel of journalists. His enemies take away his privileges when he is away. The shock of being "unwanted" parallels a deeper disappointment in his private life: his wife has an affair with a jealous young rival, and after 15 years of marriage and two daughters wants a divorce. She offers no explanations as he tries to untie these problems himself. All the moves he makes are the wrong ones. He takes on drinking heavily with students eager to attend his seminar after discovering the class has been canceled. The journalist, once suave and commanding, is reduced to silence.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,341 lines
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00:00:04 Film Polski presents:
00:04:23 I also have a wife and children, and he was my friend.
00:08:39 ...as if falsified.
00:15:02 Is Eva with you, mother?
00:18:59 To a woman, a man like that doesn't care.
00:23:03 Shouldn't civilized people behave, accordingly?
00:26:41 Perhaps, we ought to take a vote?
00:30:09 What would you write about, if you could do so?
00:34:31 - For your information... - Careful!
00:38:08 - Hurry. - My bag.
00:41:45 To pounce on my least slip-up.
00:45:45 I can tear it up here and now.
00:50:05 ...and so not to be undertaken lightly.
00:56:14 ...what I was to say at the divorce hearing.
01:03:01 ...we've seperated, temporarily.
01:08:01 Eva had a fight with him and her mother. Now it's good for you...
01:14:41 No, but I have the feeling...
01:18:26 We already have.
01:23:03 - Thank you for arranging it. - Forget it.
01:26:21 Do I look good?
01:32:19 But it's still cold. That's our climate!
01:36:54 So the respondent betrayed his wife's trust...
01:39:56 Do you know who the other man was?
01:43:02 State your name.