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El padre medico / directed by Vytautas Puidokas ; produced by Gabija Siurbyte, Mauricio Monteiro Filho, Paulius Juoceris, IronCat.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Portuguese
- Subjects (All):
- Bendoraitis, Alexander Ferdinand, 1919-1998.
- Bendoraitis, Alexander Ferdinand.
- Medical care--Amazon River Region.
- Medical care.
- Public health personnel--Brazil--Biography.
- Public health personnel.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Biographical films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (103 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Aspect Ratio Films, 2019.
- Language Note:
- In Portuguese, Spanish, Lithuanian, with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- A Lithuanian doctor, priest and a war refugee Alexander Ferdinand Bendoraitis (1919-1998) resettles to the Amazonian jungle in 1960's and becomes a local hero: establishes a boat-clinic network, the first jungle radio, and starts the pacification of local indigenous tribes and builds the most modern hospital in the Amazonia. Yet, as he gets involved in a brutal crime, countless fake narratives that he had created around himself begin to resurface.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed May 13, 2022).
- OCLC:
- 1328058848
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