''Gods'' ( pl, Bogowie) is a 2014 Polish

biographical A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just the basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events. Unlike a profile or ...

feature film directed by Łukasz Palkowski. It is based on the life and career of Polish

cardiac surgeon Cardiac surgery, or cardiovascular surgery, is surgery on the heart or great vessels performed by cardiac surgeons. It is often used to treat complications of ischemic heart disease (for example, with coronary artery bypass grafting); to cor ...

Zbigniew Religa Zbigniew Eugeniusz Religa (; 16 December 1938 – 8 March 2009) was a prominent Polish cardiac surgeon and politician. Career as doctor Religa finished his studies at the Medical University of Warsaw in 1963. From 1966 to 1980 he worked in ...

, who performed the first successful

heart transplant A heart transplant, or a cardiac transplant, is a surgical transplant procedure performed on patients with end-stage heart failure or severe coronary artery disease when other medical or surgical treatments have failed. , the most common proce ...

in Poland in 1987. The movie received the ''Golden Lions'' award for best film at the 39th

Gdynia Film Festival The Gdynia Film Festival (until 2011: Polish Film Festival, Polish: ''Festiwal Polskich Filmów Fabularnych w Gdyni'') is an annual film festival first held in Gdańsk (1974–1986), now held in Gdynia, Poland. It has taken place every year sinc ...

(2014) and the ''Eagle'' at the

Polish Film Awards Polish Film Award, or Eagle ( pl, Polska Nagroda Filmowa, „Orzeł”) is a film awards ceremony given annually since 1999, with the first event held on 21 June, by the National Chamber of Audiovisual Producers (KIPA). Since 2003 they are given ...

(2015). Production of the film took place in autumn 2013.

Cast

Tomasz Kot Tomasz Kot (born 21 April 1977) is a Polish actor. He has appeared in more than 30 films and 26 plays as well as dozens of television series. Education and career He graduated from the Tadeusz Kościuszko High School No. 1 in Legnica. On 17 Nove ...

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Piotr Głowacki Piotr Głowacki (born 29 March 1980) is a Polish actor. He appeared in more than sixty films since 2004. Awarded with the most prestigious prize for a young actor of his generation in 2014, Głowacki has since played in major Polish and internatio ...

– Marian Zembala * Szymon Piotr Warszawski – Andrzej Bochenek * Magdalena Czerwińska – Anna Religa * Rafał Zawierucha – Romuald Cichoń * Marta Ścisłowicz – nurse Magda * Karolina Piechota – nurse Krysia * Wojciech Solarz –

anesthesiologist Anesthesiology, anaesthesiology, or anaesthesia is the medical specialty concerned with the total perioperative care of patients before, during and after surgery. It encompasses anesthesia, intensive care medicine, critical emergency medicine, ...

Arkadiusz Janiczek Arkadiusz is a masculine Polish given name. Notable people with the name include: * Arkadiusz Aleksander (born 1980), Polish football player * Arkadiusz Bąk (born 1974), Polish footballer * Arkadiusz Baran (born 1979), Polish football player * Ark ...

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perfusionist A cardiovascular perfusionist, clinical perfusionist or perfusiologist, and occasionally a cardiopulmonary bypass doctor or clinical perfusion scientist, is a healthcare professional who operates the cardiopulmonary bypass machine (heart–lung ma ...

Cezary Kosiński Cezary Kosiński (born 8 April 1973) is a Polish actor. He appeared in more than forty films since 1997. Selected filmography References External links * 1973 births Living people Polish male film actors {{Poland-actor-stub ...

– Roman Włodarski * Konrad Bugaj – doctor *

Magdalena Kaczmarek Magdalena may refer to: * Magdalena (given name), a given name derived from Mary Magdalene (including a list of people with the name) Entertainment * Magdalena (comics), an American comic book superheroine * ''Magdalena'' (film), a 1920 Czech ...

– nurse Jolka * Magdalena Wróbel – nurse Michalina *

Milena Suszyńska Milena may refer to: * ''Milena'' (skipper), a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae * Milena, Sicily, a ''comune'' in the Province of Caltanissetta, Italy * Milena (given name), a popular female Slavic name * ''Milena'' (film), a 1991 ...

– nurse Gośka *

Jan Englert Jan Aleksander Englert (born 11 May 1943) is a Polish film actor. He has appeared in more than 60 films since 1957. Since 2003 he has served as Artistic Director of the National Theatre, Warsaw, National Theatre in Warsaw. Biography In 1957 ...

– professor Wacław Sitkowski * Władysław Kowalski – Jan Moll *

Zbigniew Zamachowski Zbigniew Zamachowski (; born 17 July 1961) is a Polish actor. Life and career He was born on 17 July 1961 in Brzeziny near Łódź. Zamachowski graduated from the actor's faculty of the National Film School in Łódź. He began his acting caree ...

– Stanisław Pasyk *

Marian Opania Marian Opania (, born 1 February 1943) is a Polish film actor and singer. He has appeared in more than 50 films since 1965. Biography He was born on 1 February 1943 in Puławy as the second son of Julian and Jadwiga. His father was a forester ...

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Jan Nielubowicz Jan Nielubowicz (28 October 1915 – 2 February 2000) was a Polish surgeon, regarded as one of the founders of modern Polish surgery and a pioneer of transplantology and vascular surgery. He conducted the first successful kidney transplantation ...

Małgorzata Łata Małgorzata () is a common Polish female given name derived through Latin ''Margarita'' from Ancient Greek μαργαρίτης (margarítēs), meaning "pearl". It is equivalent to the English " Margaret". Its diminutive forms include Małgośka, ...

– Ewka *

Kinga Preis Kinga Anna Preis (born 31 August 1971, in Wrocław) is a Polish film and theatre actress. Life and career She graduated from Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts in 1996. In 2006, she received the Zbigniew Cybulski Award for best young act ...

– Ewka's mother *

Ryszard Kotys Ryszard Kotys (20 March 1932 – 27 January 2021) was a Polish actor. He appeared in more than 140 films and television shows during his career. Filmography Film Television References External links * 1932 births 2021 deaths Polis ...

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ethics committee An ethics committee is a body responsible for ensuring that medical experimentation and human subject research are carried out in an ethical manner in accordance with national and international law. Specific regions An ethics committee in the E ...

member *

Włodzimierz Adamski Włodzimierz may refer to the following : People * Włodzimierz (given name), a Polish variant of the (East) Slavic name Vladimir Places and jurisdictions * Włodzimierz, Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Poland) * Włodzimierz, Łask ...

– ethics committee member * Marian Zembala – ethics committee member * Andrzej Bochenek – ethics committee member * David Price – speaker (Dr. Barnard) * Magdalena Lamparska – waitress

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''Bogowie''
at the Polish Internet Movie Database
Official movie trailer
at the producer's official YouTube channel (in Polish) 2014 films 2014 biographical drama films Polish biographical drama films Films set in hospitals Biographical films about surgeons 2014 drama films Films directed by Łukasz Palkowski {{Poland-film-stub

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