Burden of Genius
MovieTitle | Burden of Genius |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Jan 1, 2017 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Tjardus Greidanus |
Production country | United States of America |
Production companies | Laura Davis Productions |
Budget | $600,000 |
Run time | 88 min. |
In 1967, Dr. Thomas Starzl stunned the world with the first successful liver transplantation. His breakthrough provoked controversy. Critics accused him of recklessness, even murder. Others declared it the beginning of a medical revolution. "Burden of Genius" is the story of an innovator as complex and elusive as the biological secrets he unlocked. It is also a reflection on the price of scientific progress by the man many consider the greatest surgeon of the 20th century and the father of transplantation.