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DR. JACK (DOCTEUR JACK)
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Completed - ENGLISH, FRENCH - Documentary - 90 minutes

Log Line

THE TRUE STORY OF THE MAN WHO INSPIRED THE FILM "THE CITY OF JOY" AND THE INVENTOR OF THE STREET MEDICINE: DR. JACK PREGER

Previous markets

  • Cannes 2017 (Debut)
Full history

Year of production : 2016

Director(s) : Benoit LANGE, Pierre-Antoine HIROZ
Cast : Jack PREGER

Synopsis

A man of extraordinary fate, a Welsh farmer who decides a the age of 35 to become a doctor. After attending the refugee camps in Bangladesh at the end of the civil war, working with Mother Teresa for a while, Dr. Jack decides to travel the shanty towns of Calcutta to provide free care for the most disadvantaged. He invented a movement that has since become world famous: street medicine.

Production

Country(ies) : FRANCE, SWITZERLAND

SWITZERLAN Oct 10, 2016 ADOK FILMS


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Festivals and Awards

DocCorner 2017


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