DramaScience Fiction

Double Role

Name: Double Role
Director: Jaromil Jireš
Genre: Drama, Science Fiction
Released: 1999-03-18
Duration: 110 min
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Tereza Brodská, Jan Hartl, Karel Roden, Slávka Budínová, Lubor Tokoš

March 18, 1999

1h 50m

TMDB7.3· 3

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)