Le théâtre des opérations

The Operating Theater

Switzerland / France, February 2007
FILM, Documentary, 85 min.

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directed by
Benoît Rossel
Written by
Benoît Rossel
Status
In distribution

A documentary film on the initiation rites of an apprentice surgeon in the operating block at a university hospital. To witness the steps of this process is to discover a strange and foreign world in which we are transient guests. The operating block is a microcosm nestled in the heart of the hospital machine. There, surgeons, anesthesiologists, surgical technologists, nurses and aids mend lives daily. Chronicles of death and human ingenuity, ambition and pettiness, generosity, fear and black humor are written here. The operating theater stages the vital substance of life.

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World Premiere
February 2007
Original Version
French,  colour, 35mm, 85 min.
Production
PCT Cinéma Télévision SA, Everybody on Deck, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse
Producer
Pierre-André Thiébaud
directed by
Benoît Rossel
Written by
Benoît Rossel
Cinemato­graphy
Benoît Rossel, Séverine Barde
Editing
Catherine Rascon
Re-Recording Mix
Stéphane Thiébaut
Music
Karol Beffa
Location Sound Mix
Marc von Stürler

World Sales / World Rights

World Sales
Onoma

Worldwide Distribution

France
Jour2Fete Distribution
Release date: 01.10.2008
Switzerland
Cineworx GmbH Distribution

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