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Screening: The English Surgeon

Shot in a Ukrainian hospital full of desperate patients and makeshift equipment, The English Surgeon is an intimate portrait of brain surgeon Henry Marsh as he wrestles with the dilemmas of the doctor patient relationship.


Followed by Q&A with director Geoffrey Smith and Henry Marsh

What is it like to have God like surgical powers, yet to struggle against your own humanity? What is it like to try and save a life, and yet to fail?

Shot in a Ukrainian hospital full of desperate patients and makeshift equipment, The English Surgeon is an intimate portrait of brain surgeon Henry Marsh as he wrestles with the dilemmas of the doctor patient relationship. “It’s like selling your soul to the devil, but what can you do? My son had a brain tumour as a baby and I was desperate for someone to help me. I simply can’t walk away from that need in others”

With an original soundtrack by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, The English Surgeon openly confronts moral and ethical issues which touch every one of us. And all in a country called Ukraine which is struggling to do the same thing….

THE GUARDIAN
“…the best documentary for a long time”
VARIETY
“Deeply touching, resonant and ….very funny”

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE DOCUMENTARY HOTDOCS 2008
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE DOCUMENTARY SILVERDOCS 2008

Length: 94 mins
Directed by: Geoffrey Smith
UK 2008


Speaker(s):

Surgeon Henry Marsh | talks

 

Date and Time:

16 January 2009 at 7:00 pm

Duration:

1 hour 30 minutes

 

Venue:

Frontline Club
13 Norfolk Place
London
W2 1QJ
+44 (0)20 7479 8950
http://www.frontlineclub.com

More at Frontline Club...

 

Tickets:

£8.00

Available from:

http://www.frontlineclub.com

Additional Information:

Frontline is a media club that uniquely combines eating, drinking and thinking. A three-minute walk from Paddington Station, spread over three stripped wooden floors, it has a private clubroom for members, and a restaurant and forum space open to the public.

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