ZNACHOR: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Professor Rafał Wilczur was a successful surgeon in Poland in the early 20th century, whose wife leaves him with their small daughter for another man. Wilczur meets a man named Samuel who asks Wilczur to help him financially. The two men go to a bar and get drunk. Wilczur gets robbed and beaten up and loses his memory after hitting his head. Suffering from amnesia, he ends up in a small village, working as a farm laborer for years and is known there as Kosiba. He eventually starts healing the other villagers, and performs surgery on an injured young woman Maria. The existing doctor in the area sues Wilczur for using the doctor's surgical instruments. In court for this case, he is recognized as the missing famous surgeon by an expert witness Dobraniecki in the case, and he then begins to retain his memory. He then realizes that the young woman he saved is his daughter, and the two are reunited. He is told that his former wife died of tuberculosis shortly after leaving him, and the daughter ended up in an orphanage. Maria then marries Leszek, the son of a local nobleman.

Series details

• Title: ZNACHOR
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Polish
• Premiere date: 1982-04-12
• Final broadcast date listed: 1982-04-12
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: TVP1
• Network country: Poland
• Typical episode runtime: 64 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 60868

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1982-04-12; final listed air date 1982-04-12.

Source and licence

Adapted from ZNACHOR on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.