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In this fact-based film, Canadian doctor Norman Bethune (Donald Sutherland) embarks on an incredible decades-long journey across the globe using unconventional medical methods to heal those in...
- Biography
- Donald Sutherland
- Phillip Borsos
Canadian doctor Norman Bethune joins Mao's army in China, setting up field hospitals and training medics. Flashbacks show his early life, socialist beliefs, medical innovations, humanitarian work in Spain, and marital struggles.
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.
This fact-based film chronicles both the personal and professional lives of noted Canadian physician Dr. Norman Bethune (Donald Sutherland). During the Great Depression, Bethune works closely...
- Biography
Sep 17, 1993 · Full Cast & Crew. Reviews. True story of Norman Bethune, a medical doctor who fought for justice in China during Mao's rise to power.
Aug 27, 1990 · Bethune: The Making of a Hero is a 1990 Canadian film directed by Phillip Borsos about the life and death of Dr. Norman Bethune, from Gravenhurst, Ontario. It stars Donald Sutherland, Helen Mirren, Helen Shaver and Colm Feore.
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Based on the true story of Canadian doctor Norman Bethune, this film traces his life from his beginnings with his deeply religious family in Ontario, through his medical studies in school, where he developed his overwhelming compassion for those less fortunate, and his driving desire to see that they get the medical attention they need.
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