vennjoy.
← Back to discoveries
Des Doktors Dilemma
Film / 1977

Des Doktors Dilemma

Comedy

★ 9.0/10Audience rating

The painter Dubedat is seriously ill with tuberculosis. His attractive wife, Jennifer, begs the famous doctor Sir Colenso Ridgeon—who has just been knighted—to help her husband, especially since the doctor has a remedy that only he knows how to administer properly. But Sir Colenso’s clinic is overcrowded, and the doctor faces the dilemma of whether to save the brilliant painter while condemning a “less valuable” person to certain death.

The story

The painter Dubedat is seriously ill with tuberculosis. His attractive wife, Jennifer, begs the famous doctor Sir Colenso Ridgeon—who has just been knighted—to help her husband, especially since the doctor has a remedy that only he knows how to administer properly. But Sir Colenso’s clinic is overcrowded, and the doctor faces the dilemma of whether to save the brilliant painter while condemning a “less valuable” person to certain death.

More to discover

Film 8.3

Runner

2026 · Action · Comedy

Film 8.5

Parasite

2019 · Comedy · Thriller

Share in the feed ↗
VENNJOY / Selected

A few ideas just for you

Suggestions based on the genres of your favourites. Keep exploring: your tastes are never a box.

Create an account to keep your collection across devices.

Save your discoveries