The English Surgeon
Even God Can't Save Everyone
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 3, 2009
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Pbs (Direct)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Geoffrey Smith | |
Composition by | Nick Cave & Warren Ellis | |
Director of Photography: | Graham Day | |
Hosted by | Henry Marsh, Igor Kurilets & Marian Dolishny |
Entertainment Reviews:
This multi-award winning doco is a riveting insight into something that goes on every day within reach of us all, but out of sight and mind.
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Urban Cinefile
Rating: 3.5/5 --
An edge-of-your seat documentary from Geoffrey Smith about a British physician who has done pro bono work in Ukraine for 15 years.
Jam! Movies
Rating: 4.5/5 --
Henry Marsh is a British brain surgeon whose humanity and talent with power drills make him an uncommonly enthralling linchpin.
New York Times
Rating: 4/5 --
Like Marsh, the filmmaker has taken a sort of triage approach to telling the tale, with near-perfect pacing as he moves between Marsh, the patients, and Marsh's wonderful Ukrainian colleague, neurosurgeon Igor Kurilets.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: 4/5 --
Using a haunting score by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, The English Surgeon keenly shows us Marsh's battle with humility, and allows us to share with him the triumphs of his successes and sorrow of his failures.
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Spectrum Culture
Rating: 8.5/10 --
A provocative, taut and compelling documentary that's concurrently disturbing and profoundly moving.
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NYC Movie Guru
Rating: 3/5 --
Why see such a difficult film? For the same reason Smith made it: There is great beauty in watching one heroic soul insist that he can improve upon a cruel and complex world.
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New York Daily News
Product Description:
This documentary by Geoffrey Smith tells the inspiring story of British neurosurgeon Henry Marsh, who turned the run-down remains of a Ukrainian hospital into a working surgery center. When Marsh visited the Kiev hospital in the 1990s, he was aghast at the deplorable conditions of both the facilities and the patients. Bent on creating a medical institution where sufferers at least had hope, he began collecting medical equipment, gradually providing those with injuries and tumors the opportunity to have life-saving procedures.
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