DR. JACK

DOCTEUR JACK

By Benoit LANGE, Pierre-Antoine HIROZ

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Documentary - Completed 2016

THE TRUE STORY OF THE MAN WHO INSPIRED THE FILM "THE CITY OF JOY" AND THE INVENTOR OF THE STREET MEDICINE: DR. JACK PREGER

    • Year of production
    • 2016
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • FRANCE, SWITZERLAND
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH, FRENCH
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Benoit LANGE, Pierre-Antoine HIROZ
    • Synopsis
    • A man of extraordinary fate, a Welsh farmer who decides a the age of 35 to become a doctor. After attending the refugee camps in Bangladesh at the end of the civil war, working with Mother Teresa for a while, Dr. Jack decides to travel the shanty towns of Calcutta to provide free care for the most disadvantaged. He invented a movement that has since become world famous: street medicine.