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EL PADRE MEDICO

By Vytautas PUIDOKAS

Crime - Completed 2019

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Crime, Biography, Documentary
- Countries
- LITHUANIA, BRAZIL
- Languages
- ENGLISH, LITHUANIAN, PORTUGUESE, SPANISH
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 102 mn
- Director(s)
- Vytautas PUIDOKAS
- Writer(s)
- Vytautas PUIDOKAS, Anne FABINI
- Cast
- Alexander Ferdinand BENDORAITIS
- Producer(s)
- Paulius JUOČERIS (Ironcat)
- Synopsis
- A Lithuanian doctor, priest and a war refugee Alexander Ferdinand Bendoraitis (1919-1998) resettles to Amazonian jungle in 1960’s and becomes a local hero: establishes a boat-clinic network, first jungle radio, starts the pacification of local indigenous tribes and builds the most modern hospital in the Amazonia. Yet, as he gets involved in a brutal crime, countless fake narratives that he had created around himself begin to resurface.