General Major
TITLE
Docteur Laennec (199?)
ALT__TITLE
DISABILITY
General tuberculosis
COUNTRY
France
LENGTH
98
GENRE
Biography
DIRECTOR
Cloche, Maurice
CAST
Pierre Blanchar
NOTES
Colour and B/W.
True story of a doctor in early nineteenth century France who
devotes himself to the care of patients dying during an
epidemic of tuberculosis. He invents an early stethoscope but
himself dies of the disease.
Apparently there is reasonable historical accuracy.
Notes
Copyright Disabilityfilms
since 1994
