Film

The Borrowed Face

Name: The Borrowed Face
Director: Pavel Hobl
Released: 1965
Cast: Vlastimil Brodský, Fred Delmare, Jana Brejchová, František Filipovský, Jaroslav Marvan

1965 · 85 min · Dir. Pavel Hobl

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.