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Title Portrait of a Surgeon
Production Date 1964
Country of Production USSR
Duration 00:31:35
Production Company Kiev Popular Science Film Studios
Film Subject Era 1954-1975
Genre Documentary
Summary A documentary feature on the working life of a neurosurgeon of the Neurologist Institute of Ukraine, including footage of patients before and after their surgery, and doctors debating over the right procedure to be carried out. [WARNING: contains surgical footage.]
Original Title Портрет хирурга
Subjects Health and medicine; Medical practitioners; Medical equipment; Science; Animals; Research
Director Trachev, N.
Contributors
Script:
Vernikov, V.

Photography:
Preobrazhensky, V.

Music:
Muha, A.

Places USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
Fiction/Non Fiction Non Fiction
Sound Sound
Colour Format Black and white
Film Format 16mm Comb BW pos
Language English (Narrator)
Module Culture & Society
Copyright The British Film Institute