HOSPITAL shows the daily activities of a large urban hospital with the emphasis on the emergency ward and outpatient clinics. The cases depicted illustrate how medical expertise, availability of resources, organizational considerations, and the nature of communication among the staff and patients affect the delivery of appropriate health care.
Festivals & Awards
Emmy Award for Best Documentary & Best Director – 1970
Press
It is as open and revealing as filmed experience has ever been. You look misery in the eye and you realize there’s nothing to be afraid of… By the end we are so thoroughly involved… that tears well up, because we simply have no other means of responding to the intensity of this plain view of the ordinary activities in Metropolitan Hospital.
Pauline Kael, The New Yorker
Original title: Hospital
Production: Zipporah Films Inc.
Nationality: USA
Year of production: 1969
Running time: 84'
Language: English
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