The Borrowed Face (1965)
The Borrowed Face (1965) - Comedy Movies 85 minutes. The Lost Face, Visage perdu. 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. body-swap, identity swap
Released: Dec 24, 1965
Runtime: 85 minutes
Genre: Comedy, Science Fiction
Stars: Vlastimil Brodský, Fred Delmare, František Filipovský, Marie Vášová, Martin Růžek, Nina Popelíková
Crew: Pavel Hobl (Director), Pavel Hobl (Screenplay), Josef Nesvadba (Screenplay), Jiří Vojta (Director of Photography), Josef Dobřichovský (Editor), Karel Lier (Art Direction)