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The English Surgeon, winner of Best International Feature at Hot Docs, Toronto, follows Dr. Henry Marsh has been going to Kyiv, Ukraine for 15 years with suitcases full of slightly-used equipment that would ordinarily be thrown out after one use. He passes his knowledge of surgical procedures and performs dangerous operations in a Ukrainian hospital full of makeshift equipment and desperate people.
Along with an actual operation setting of a wide-awake patient, The English Surgeon is an intimate portrait of a medical professional speaking philosophically on the dilemmas of a doctor/patient relationship. Nick and Warren Cave wrote and performed the original score.
