Docteur Jack
Docteur Jack, a Welsh farmer, becomes a doctor at 35, and takes off for Bangladesh and the slums of Calcutta to start a new movement: Street Medecine. "Dr. Jack" recounts the journey of the man who inspired the film "The City of Joy", Dr. Jack Preger. A man of extraordinary destiny, a Welsh farmer who decides at the age of 35 to become a doctor. After healing in the refugee camps in Bangladesh at the end of the civil war, having worked for some time with Mother Teresa, Dr. Jack decided to travel the slums of Calcutta to provide free care to the poor. He invented a movement that has since become known worldwide: Street Medicine.
Keywords
- debut
- stadsleven
Director
- Benoît Lange
- Pierre-Antoine Hiroz
Docteur Jack, a Welsh farmer, becomes a doctor at 35, and takes off for Bangladesh and the slums of Calcutta to start a new movement: Street Medecine.
"Dr. Jack" recounts the journey of the man who inspired the film "The City of Joy", Dr. Jack Preger. A man of extraordinary destiny, a Welsh farmer who decides at the age of 35 to become a doctor. After healing in the refugee camps in Bangladesh at the end of the civil war, having worked for some time with Mother Teresa, Dr. Jack decided to travel the slums of Calcutta to provide free care to the poor. He invented a movement that has since become known worldwide: Street Medicine.
