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Ted Allan (novel)
Ted Allan (screenplay)
Release Date:
17 September 1993 (USA) more
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1 win & 8 nominations more
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Cast

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Donald Sutherland ... Dr. Norman Bethune

Helen Mirren ... Frances Penny Bethune

Helen Shaver ... Mrs. Dowd

Colm Feore ... Chester Rice
James Pax ... Mr. Tung
Da Guo ... Dr. Chian

Anouk Aimée ... Marie-France Coudaire
Ronald Pickup ... Alan Coleman
Geoffrey Chater ... Dr. Archibald
Tan Zong-Yao ... General Nieh
Ke-Yaw Zhang ... Chairman Mao
Iñaki Aierra ... Dr. Salvador
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Lorne Brass ... Reporter 1
Sophie Faucher ... Nurse MacKenzie
Frank Fontaine ... Dr. Williamson
Ethel Gerstein ... Gaggle Lady
Peggy Goldberg ... Gaggle Lady
Rebecca Hogan ... Gaggle lady
Beatrice Home ... Mary

James Hong
Nicholas Kilbertus ... George Pilling
Danute Kristo ... Ingrid Halstrom
Emilio Linder
Harrison Liu ... Dr. Fong
Jack McGuigan ... Gaggle Man
Linda O'Dwyer ... Nursing Sister
Yvan Ponton ... Frank Coudaire
Leona Toppel ... Gaggle Lady

Timothy Webber
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Bethune, l'étoffe d'un héros (Canada: French title)
Docteur Norman Bethune (France)
Dr. Bethune
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Germany:168 min | USA:115 min
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Version of Baiqiuen dai fu (1964) more

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3 out of 7 people found the following comment useful.
Extremely foolish to pass it as a political propaganda, 28 November 2003
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Author: zzmale

It is extremely easy to pass it as a political propaganda at first glance. However, it would extremely foolish to do so. What happened to Mao and his party was exactly like what ancient Romans had said: Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

However, what happened to Mao and his party after the revolution cannot be used to mitigate what Chinese people accomplished under his leadership before the revolution. Denying past accomplishment of Mao and his party, as well as Chinese people and those great internationalists who helped China to fight Japanese fascists invaders would be as foolish as, and as racist as denying the existence of in USA simply because blacks in USA enjoy better living standards than blacks in Africa & Latin America.

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