The English Surgeon

What's it like to have God like surgical powers, yet to struggle against your own humanity? What’s it like to try and save a life, and yet to fail? Shot in an Ukrainian hospital full of desperate patients and makeshift equipment, this film is an intimate portrait of neurosurgeon 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 baby son had a brain tumour and I was desperate for someone to help me. I simply can’t walk away from that need in others”