Word: nerac
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...Nerac is a brilliant young French doctor who finds the high-pressure ratrace of his residency in a large Paris hospital ideal. His brilliant technique, icy professional objectivity, and need for females only to satisfy impeding primal urges mark him as a man determined to rise...
Unfortunately, this glimpse of the profession as a whole narrows down to close shots of Nerac, who by Fin has decided his destiny lies in the direction of a country doctor, bringing succor to illiterate, mistrusting peasants. Young Doctor Malonism never does quite creep into the film, though, because the eulogy at the old country doctor's funeral is short, and simple, and the only small flag waved for the medical profession in the whole story...
Scenes of the doctor visiting peasants living in squalor and ignorance make their points quietly, letting a frown at the stranger's syringe of tetanus serum, or scorn of his flimsy prescription note show the challenges Nerac finally dedicates himself to meeting...
Raymond Pelegrin looks like a doctor; his smooth, professional air as the Nerac of the film's opening scenes, and his quiet dismay as he later realizes he is not a god, give a sensitive presentation of a part limited by overuse. Fernand Ledoux, as the old Dr. Delpuech, plays with age and experience in all his movements, and dies effectively, in itself something of an accomplishment...
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