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The African Doctor
Why this pick
Like Joyeux Noël, it finds warmth and humane comedy across cultural distance, using a gently idealistic tone to turn suspicion into mutual recognition.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE2005 1h 56m FRA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Keep the feeling.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The story centres mainly upon six characters: Gordon (a Lieutenant of the Royal Scots Fusiliers); Audebert (a French Lieutenant in the 26th Infantry and reluctant son of a general); Horstmayer (a History of the Jews in Germany German Lieutenant of the 93rd Infantry Division (German Empire)); Father Palmer (a Scottish people priest working as a chaplain and stretcher-bearer); and German tenor Nikolaus Sprink and his Danish people fiancée, mezzo-soprano, Anna Sørensen (two famous opera stars).
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Diane Kruger
Anna Sorensen
Gary Lewis
Father Palmer
Daniel Brühl
Lieutenant Horst Mayer
Alex Ferns
Lieutenant Gordon
Benno Fürmann
Private Nikolaus Sprink
Guillaume Canet
Lieutenant Camille Rene Audebert
Ian Richardson
The Bishop
Christopher Fulford
Royal Scots Fusiliers Major