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a film by Daniel Coche & Simone Fluhr, 77' Several times each year, they are 13.000 Km away from home, in a hospital in Laos. They come from Luxemburg, Strasbourg, Freiburg: they are surgeons, pediatricians, nurses, anaesthetists,...

For one week, they operate on children suffering from heart malformations and they train the Laotian medical team so that they can become self-sufficient in a near future. Total immersion in Mahosot Hospital in Vientiane during one of the missions of Aid to Health Development.

technical data :
duration	77 minutes
camera	Daniel Coche
sound	Simone Fluhr
editing	Daniel Coche & Simone Fluhr
production	dora films
grants	Région Alsace
	Aid to Health Development

Press about the film :

DNA 23 novembre 2008, un coeur gros comme ça

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