Chis documentary traces the journey of Dr. Denis Mukwege, a Congolese gynecologist and human rights activist who performs reconstructive surgery on raped women in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Fabienne Bradfer writes:
The tears of a child who lost an eye, his father, his mother and not being able to go to school anymore. The moans of an eight-year-old girl kidnapped from her bed at night and raped. The broken voice of Doctor Mukwege operating on a little girl whose genitals have been slaughtered. We learn that the victims are also babies. We want to vomit, to scream. No, Thierry Michel is not in the pathos. He is extremely modest to denounce the unspeakable that is happening in the Congo, a country he has often filmed, to let the victims speak, to follow a prophet doctor in the midst of barbarism, to look at the beauty of women bruised forever. . When things get too hard, he appeals to Congolese songs or Bach as Coppola did with Wagner in Apocalypse Now. He extensively films the nature of the province of Kivu, paradisiacal and sends man back to his littleness in the face of the great whole of creation. In this region in eastern Congo, war has been raging for twenty years. Women's bodies have become the battleground for armed men. Fight without appeal. Denis Mukwege, gynecologist, chose the weapons of surgeon and humanist to help his women to rebuild themselves. Physically, psychologically, legally. From the United Nations to his hospital under surveillance, he risks his life to repair lives. We follow it on a daily basis. Stations of the Cross filled with energy leading to the resurrection. On the one hand evil, on the other good. Captivating, Thierry Michel's film is a huge cry. That of all violated, mutilated vaginas. So that justice is done.