Synopsis
Noted for its footage of an actual childbirth, this is a movie about a kindly physician who tries to introduce modern medicine and sanitation to the residents of a small farming community. Trying to relieve their suffering during childbirth and trying to help them to prevent disease, he meets the age-old obstacle of superstition head-on.
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Credits
Director (1)
Actors (39)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producers : Cocinex, Societé d'Exploitation et de Distribution de Films (SEDIF), Cocinor
- Film exports/foreign sales : Tamasa Distribution
- French distribution : Cocinor
Full credits (17)
- Screenwriters : Jean-Paul Le Chanois, René Barjavel
- Dialogue Writers : Jean-Paul Le Chanois, René Barjavel
- Director of Photography : Henri Alekan
- Music Composer : Joseph Kosma
- Assistant directors : Pierre Granier-Deferre, Jean Vigne, Jacques Gaillard
- Editor : Emma Le Chanois
- Sound Recordist : René Sarazin
- Producer : Ignace Morgenstern
- Assistant Operators : Raymond Menvielle, René Chabal
- Camera Operator : Gustave Raulet
- Production Manager : Georges Charlot
- Assistant Editor : Jacqueline Aubery
- Continuity supervisor : Geneviève Cortier
- Production Designer : Serge Pimenoff
- Art directors : Jacques Paris, François De Lamothe
- Still Photographer : Léo Mirkine
- Location managers : Paul Laffargue, Roger Descoffre
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Medicine
- Production language : French
- Production country : France (100.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1957
- French release : 03/04/1957
- Runtime : 1 h 50 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 18354
- Visa issue date : 08/03/1957
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 1.37
- Audio format : Mono
Box-office & releases
TV broadcasting
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