Doc's Kingdom
1987 · Movie · 90 min. · France
Doc lives on the edge of Europe where it imperceptibly slides over into the Third World. As a doctor, he knows that the illness he has contracted ten years before in war-torn Africa is getting worse. The diagnosis is cholera, but Doc Knows the disease's real name: despair. His thoughts about his failed struggle for justice and ideals are drowned regularly in alcohol. On the other side of the world lives Jimmy, a speed-loving motorbike freak who, when his mother dies, finds a letter from Doc and discovers that his father, whom he thought was dead, is still alive. The encounter of the two men leads to a reappraisal of two worlds in opposition.
Direction Robert Kramer
Cast Paul McIsaac · Vincent Gallo · Ruy Furtado · Roslyn Payn · João César Monteiro
Soundtrack Barre Phillips
Screenplay Robert Kramer
Cinematography Robert Machover
Original title Doc's Kingdom
7.0
25 votes (FilmAffinity)
Add to lists
Share