Intensive Life Unit
A documentary drama following two doctors in the palliative care unit.
- Jednotka intenzivního života
- Czechia 2021
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- English
- 76 min.
- 12+
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2 minIntensive Life Unit (trailer)
Intensive Life Unit
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29 minAdéla Komrzý: In the presence of death I felt gratitude for my life
Space KVIFF X
Doctors Ondřej and Kateřina look after their patients to the best of their ability, but they can’t prevent their death. Nevertheless, the inevitability of the end isn’t the hardest thing they have to face as heads of palliative care at Prague’s General University Hospital. A pilot project has emerged at a time when countless options are available to prolong human life; death is a social taboo and everyone has to confront his own mortality. Aware that a classic profile of the hospital would fall short, Adéla Komrzý submits a profoundly humanistic meditation on the ethics of palliative care. Betraying her special brand of empathy, she documents intimate conversations between doctors and their patients which demonstrate that, while there’s no good or bad way to die, there’s always a means to improve patients’ quality of life.
Read moreKarlovy Vary International Film Festival
2021 – Adéla Komrzý (East of West Award – Special Mention)
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
2021 – Adéla Komrzý ( FEDEORA Jury Special Mention)
Czech Lions
2021 – Adéla Komrzý, Pavla Janoušková Kubečková (Best Documentary)
Czech Film Critic Awards
2021 – Adéla Komrzý (Best Documentary)
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