The English Surgeon [videorecording - DVD] / a film by Geoffrey Smith

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublication details: [United Kingdom] : Artefact Films [2007?]Description: 1 videodisc (93 mins.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s): Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Graham Day ; music composed and performed by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
Scope and content: What is it like to have God-like surgical powers, yet to struggle with your own humanity? What is it like to try and save a life, andyet to fail? These are the dilemmas facing brain surgeon Dr Henry Marsh in this award winning and celebrated documentary. Driven by the need to help others, Henry has been going out to Kiev for over 15 years to help improve upon the medieval brain surgery he first discovered. Shot in a hospital full of desperate patients and makeshift equipment, 'The English Surgeon' is an intimate portrait of Dr Marsh as he wrestles with difficult choices affecting the lives of others
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Director of photography, Graham Day ; music composed and performed by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis

What is it like to have God-like surgical powers, yet to struggle with your own humanity? What is it like to try and save a life, andyet to fail? These are the dilemmas facing brain surgeon Dr Henry Marsh in this award winning and celebrated documentary. Driven by the need to help others, Henry has been going out to Kiev for over 15 years to help improve upon the medieval brain surgery he first discovered. Shot in a hospital full of desperate patients and makeshift equipment, 'The English Surgeon' is an intimate portrait of Dr Marsh as he wrestles with difficult choices affecting the lives of others

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