Canadian surgeon Dr. Norman Bethune (Donald Sutherland) journeys 1,500 miles into China to reach Mao Zedong's eighth route Army in the Wu Tai mountains where he will build hospitals, provide care, and train medics. Flashbacks narrate the earlier events of his life: a bout with tuberculosis at
Canadian surgeon Dr. Norman Bethune (Donald Sutherland) journeys 1,500 miles into China to reach Mao Zedong's eighth route Army in the Wu Tai mountains where he will build hospitals, provide care, and train medics. Flashbacks narrate the earlier events of his life: a bout with tuberculosis at the Trudeau sanatorium; the self-administration of an experimental pneumothorax; the invention of operative instruments; his fascination with Socialism; a journey into medical Russia; and the founding of a mobile plasma-transfusion unit in war-torn Spain. Bethune twice married and twice divorced his wife Frances (Dame Helen Mirren), who chooses abortion over child-rearing in her unstable marriage. By 1939, Bethune had been dismissed from his Montreal Hospital for taking unconventional risks, and from his volunteer position in Spain for his chronic problems of drinking and womanizing. As his friend states: "China was all that was left." Even there, Bethune confidently ignores the advice of Chinese officials until heavy casualties make him realize his mistake and lead him to a spectacular apology.
主演:拉塞尔·布兰德,海伦·米伦,格蕾塔·葛韦格,詹妮弗·加纳,尼克·诺特,马特·马洛伊,奈杰尔·巴克,Tuffy Questell,Sara Chase,查理·海森,斯丁克·费舍尔,莱斯莉·亨德里克斯,Jennie Eisenhower,Sean G. Tarjoto,理查德·贝金斯,罗伯特·克洛赫赛,伊万德·霍利菲尔德,约翰·霍吉曼,杰克逊·尼科尔,杰拉丁妮·詹姆斯,路易斯·古兹曼,斯科特·安第斯,Pamela Stewart