Without Anesthesia

{{Infobox film

| name = Without Anesthesia

| image = Without Anesthesia (film poster).jpg

| caption =

| director = Andrzej Wajda

| writer = Agnieszka Holland
Andrzej Wajda

| starring = {{ubl|Zbigniew Zapasiewicz|Ewa Dalkowska|Andrzej Seweryn|Krystyna Janda}}

| music = Jerzy Derfel

| cinematography = Edward Klosinski

| editing =

| released = {{film date|1978|11|27}}

| runtime = 131 minutes

| country = Poland

| language = Polish

}}

Without Anesthesia (alternative English title: Rough Treatment) is the English-language title for the Polish film Bez znieczulenia, released in 1978, directed by Andrzej Wajda. It was entered in the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/1918/year/1979.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Without Anesthesia |accessdate=2009-05-24|work=festival-cannes.com}}

According to the screenplay, Without Anesthesia takes place in the 1960s. Jerzy (Zbigniew Zapasiewicz), a well-known journalist and foreign correspondent who reports on wars, revolutions and guerrilla movements in the third world, is a man whose personal life and career are falling apart.

The main character is based on Ryszard Kapuściński, the prominent Polish journalist and author of the "reportage" school.Tomasz Łubieński, "Kapuściński's pupil?" Gazeta Wyborcza, 3 March 2010, p. 13 (in Polish) ("Ryszard Kapuściński was the original model for the main character of Andrzej Wajda's film Without Anesthesia.")