Protesys
MovieTitle | Protesys |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Aug 23, 2020 |
Genre | Science Fiction |
Director | Afonso Poyart |
Production country | Brazil |
Production companies | Black Filmes, Picma Creative Post |
Run time | 10 min. |
The production mixes documentary narrative with fiction, showing the overcoming story of Flávio Reitz, a Paralympic medalist who was diagnosed with a tumor in the left leg femur as a teenager and had to amputate it. The turnaround comes when Flavio is invited by an American start-up, the fictional SOLIDLIMBS, to test a revolutionary bionic prosthesis technology.