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 The English Surgeon
QFT
3.30pm Sunday 13 April |
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£6.00/£5.50 Book Online
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What is it like to have God-like surgical powers and still struggle against your own humanity? How do you deal with the power of saving a life? How do you cope when you sometimes fail? All these questions are answered for Dr. Henry Marsh as he visits Kiev.
Henry Marsh is one of London’s foremost brain surgeons. His down-to-earth style, professionalism and warmth are endlessly charming. He rides an old pushbike to work, worries endlessly about his patients and is driven by the need to help others. Henry has been travelling to Kiev for over 15 years where he supports a local surgeon to improve a severely under-resourced brain surgery. Over a glass of wine Henry helps fashion surgical tools, whilst in surgery holes are drilled into skulls using devices bought from the local market stalls. The film is both deeply moving and amazingly uplifting as it provides the audience with a deep understanding of the physical shape of thought and emotion The English Surgeon cures a sufferer of epilepsy while returning to meet the family of a patient whose failed operation haunts him from years before.
The English Surgeon is one of those great delights - an exquisitely made film with a passionately invested subject finding universal appeal on the festival circuit. Made for television, this film deserves theatrical appreciation. With a score by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, and photography better than your average matinee movie, this film is made of sublime stuff.
Director Geoffrey Smith and film subject Dr. Henry Marsh will introduce the screening and take part in Q&A afterward.
“This is one extraordinary documentary ... A life-affirming, unforgettable portrait of a true humanitarian.”
Time Out
Dir. Geoffrey Smith – 2007 - UK - 93 mins - Cert PG - Bungalow Town/Eyeline Productions
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