Illumination (1973) on Netflix

Plot summary

Franciszek Retman is accepted into college to study physics, holding that rationality and science come first. He and a fellow student become a couple. After a party at which he takes cannabis, he arrives at her apartment to find another man assaulting her; he intervenes and is beaten, and she breaks up with him and throws him out. Later he vacations with other students at a mountain lodge, where the group plans a climb to the peak and he meets Małgosia and falls in love with her. Between the episodes, lecturers address the camera about time, the self and other questions of physics and biology.