BR, LT

2019

102 min

Finished

El Padre Medico

EL PADRE MEDICO

Directing: Vytautas Puidokas

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.
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