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The Elephant Man

The Elephant Man

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7.00
drama, biography
1980
USA, UK
David Lynch
125 min.
Anthony Hopkins, John Hunt, Ann Bankroft, John Gilgood, Wandy Hiller, Freddie Jones, Michael Elphic, Hannah Gordon, Helen Ryan, John Standing

This is a true and sad story of the life of a person actually existing in the 19th century, John Merrick, who suffered from a rare disease that caused monstrous deformations of the body. The young surgeon Trves, seeing this unhappy and clogged creature in a booth, redeems him from the owner out of purely scientific interest, but is surprised to find a person intellectually developed and spiritual in him. Professional interest is replaced by compassion, the phenomenon becomes fashionable in the highest light, the queen herself blesses to leave him in the hospital forever ...

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