Talk:The English Surgeon

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More production and editions information

Since this seems to be the article dedicated especially to the documentary (as apart from the CDs and the book), I'd like to see more information about the different versions. As much as I know, at first a 10-hour version was aired on anglophone TV, then a bit later (when exactly?) a roughly 10-hour VHS box was issued. Years later (when?) the DVD box came out, spanning roughly 12 hours.

Apart form these two official versions (10 hours and 12 hours), I know a three-part version I luckily happened to tape, spanning about 4 to 4-and-a-half hours that aired on German TV in 1996 and that partly had different editing and audio-visual effects as could have only been done by using the original source footage (including the individual interviews done in the 1990s specifically for the Anthology). Having a job in video editing myself, I must say that when it comes to pacing and timing, creating a variety of different moods, and making video and audio fitting each other on different audio-visual as well as cognitive levels, it is this latter version that seems very much superior to the other two which I'd only recommend for die-hard fans of the band (even though I'm such myself). It is this shortest version that keeps inspiring me in my own work in a variety of different fields and working with diverse forms of content even after all those years because I think it stands out from a lot of other documentary, music video, and general TV productions in the regards mentioned above. The question is, how and when did this version originate, and who did it? --Tlatosmd 16:56, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Igor Kurilets

Erm, why isn't he mentioned? Is it not his real name? He is the Ukrainian surgeon. Henry Marsh also called him Igor Petrovich a couple of times. 81.68.255.36 (talk) 10:25, 7 September 2010 (UTC)