The Rebel Surgeon

Sweden2017documentary52'Konkurs dokumentalny (2017)

Doctor Erik Erichsen was one of the characters of the famous documentary "The Swedish Theory of Love". The director returns to him to tell the story of a unique physician who, after thirty years, left his job and went with his wife to Ethiopia where he started to work at a small field hospital. Despite extreme conditions and exceptionally severe medical cases, the character feels much more fulfilled there than in the bureaucratic health care system of Sweden.

Awards
  • 2017 Documentary competition
    Audience Poll AwardSpecial Award
directed by
Erik Gandini

Director, screen writer and producer. He was born in 1967 in Bergamo, Italy. He has made several award-winning documentary films, including "Raya Sarajevo" (1994), "Surplus – Terrorised Into Being Consumers" (2003), "Gitmo" (2006), and two films which owe their great popularity to an intriguing form, "Videocracy" (2009) and "The Swedish Theory of Love" (2005). He is a co-founder of ATMO, a production company.

cinematography
Carl Nilsson
script
Erik Gandini
editing
Stefan Sundlöf, Johan Söderberg
production
Erik Gandini, Juan Pablo Libossart (Fasad)
Photo
Kadr z filmu The Rebel Surgeon