90 years old, nearly blind, and still the best vet in Gascony — stubbornness has never looked so tender.
In Gascony, a sparsely populated region in the southwest of France, lives Dr. Jean Cadéot, a ninety-year-old veterinarian who continues to work tirelessly and still enjoys doing so. Although his eyesight is getting worse and worse, he treats his animal patients with all his senses and all his love.
Direction
Pfeiffer observes without sentimentality — rare restraint.
Sound
Gascony itself becomes a character: mud, bells, patient breathing.
Director
Ulrike Pfeiffer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gascony has one of France's lowest population densities; Cadéot embodies a disappearing rural expertise.
Narrator Jens Harzer is a German actor — an outsider's voice was deliberately chosen to mirror the audience's perspective.
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