The Village Doctor(1988)

Name: The Village Doctor
Director: Serhii Masloboishchykov
Genre: Drama
Released: 1988-01-01
Duration: 9 min

Based on a short story by Franz Kafka, Masloboyshchikov’s debut film is a parable about the relationship between faith and salvation. A strange doctor comes to a neighbouring village to cure a sick child. The doctor thinks the boy should stop pretending, but the boy himself begs the doctor to let him die.