Gods (Polish: Bogowie) is a 2014 Polish biographical feature film directed by Łukasz Palkowski. It is based on the life and career of Polish cardiac surgeon Zbigniew Religa, who performed the first successful heart transplant in Poland in 1987. The movie received the Golden Lions award for best film at the 39th Gdynia Film Festival (2014) and the Eagle at the Polish Film Awards (2015). Production of the film took place in autumn 2013.
Cast
Tomasz Kot – Zbigniew Religa
Piotr Głowacki – 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
Arkadiusz Janiczek – perfusionist
Cezary Kosiński – Roman Włodarski
Konrad Bugaj – doctor
Magdalena Kaczmarek – nurse Jolka
Magdalena Wróbel – nurse Michalina
Milena Suszyńska – nurse Gośka
Jan Englert – professor Wacław Sitkowski
Władysław Kowalski – Jan Moll
Zbigniew Zamachowski – Stanisław Pasyk
Marian Opania – Jan Nielubowicz
Małgorzata Łata – Ewka
Kinga Preis – Ewka's mother
Ryszard Kotys – ethics committee member
Włodzimierz Adamski – ethics committee member
Marian Zembala – ethics committee member
Andrzej Bochenek – ethics committee member
David Price – speaker (Dr. Barnard)
Magdalena Lamparska – waitress