简介: Canadian surgeon Dr. Norman Bethune (Donald Sutherland) journeys 1,500 miles into China to reach Mao Zedong's eighth route Army in the Wu Tai mountains where he will build hospitals, provide care, and train medics. Flashbacks narrate the earlier events of his life: a bout with tuberculosis at the Trudeau sanatorium; the self-administration of an experimental pneumothorax; the invention of operative instruments; his fascination with Socialism; a journey into medical Russia; and the founding of a mobile plasma-transfusion unit in war-torn Spain. Bethune twice married and twice divorced his wife Frances (Dame Helen Mirren), who chooses abortion over child-rearing in her unstable marriage. By 1939, Bethune had been dismissed from his Montreal Hospital for taking unconventional risks, and from his volunteer position in Spain for his chronic problems of drinking and womanizing. As his friend states: "China was all that was left." Even there, Bethune confidently ignores the advice of Chinese officials until heavy casualties make him realize his mistake and lead him to a spectacular apology.
西尔维奥·奥兰多,瓦莱里奥·马斯坦德雷亚,埃琳娜·莱蒂,托马索·拉尼奥,克劳迪亚·潘多尔菲,维尼乔·马尔基奥尼,莫妮卡·贝鲁奇,迭戈·里邦,马西米利亚诺·托尔托拉,埃马努艾拉·法内利,加布里埃尔·蒙特西,萨拉·萨里约科,特泽塔·阿夫拉姆,Solomon Andra,Malich Cissé,保拉·蒂齐亚娜·克鲁恰尼,Federico D'Ovidio,吉安尼·迪·格雷格里奥,Emanuele Maria Di Stefano,Emma Fasano