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Dr. Bethune

1990, Movie, NR, 115 mins

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Donald Sutherland plays Dr. Norman Bethune, revered in his own country as an early partisan of Canada's state-funded medical system and in China for bringing modern surgical techniques to the battlefield while aiding Mao Tse-tung against the Japanese early in World War II. Quintessentially Canadian, however, his story is also one of frustration and defeat that doesn't travel well. This respectful biography directed by Phillip Borsos (THE GREY FOX) was completed in 1990, but ... read more leave a comment
Year: 1990
Rated NR

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Cast
Donald Sutherland: Dr. Norman Bethune
Helen Mirren: Frances Penny Bethune
Helen Shaver: Ms. Dowd
Anouk Aimee: Marie-France Coudaire
Colm Feore: Chester Rice
James Pax: Mr. Tung

 

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