Film

Burden of Genius

20171h 28mDocumentary

Director: Tjardus Greidanus
Year: 2017

In 1967, Dr. Thomas Starzl stunned the world with the first successful liver transplantation. His breakthrough provoked controversy.

In 1967, Dr. Thomas Starzl stunned the world with the first successful liver transplantation. His breakthrough provoked controversy. Critics accused him of recklessness, even murder. Others declared it the beginning of a medical revolution. "Burden of Genius" is the story of an innovator as complex and elusive as the biological secrets he unlocked. It is also a reflection on the price of scientific progress by the man many consider the greatest surgeon of the 20th century and the father of transplantation.

Top cast

James Redford

Self – Filmmaker, Liver Transplant Patient

Larry Kramer

Self – Writer/Activist/Liver Transplant Patient

David Crosby

Self – Musician, Liver Transplant Patient

David McCullough

Self – Author, Historian

Arthur Caplan

Self – Professor of Bioethics, NYU

Directed by

Tjardus Greidanus

Written by

Tjardus Greidanus

Produced by

Laura Davis

Film

Burden of Genius

20171h 28mDocumentary

United States

Director: Tjardus Greidanus
Year: 2017

In 1967, Dr. Thomas Starzl stunned the world with the first successful liver transplantation. His breakthrough provoked controversy.

Top cast

James Redford

Self – Filmmaker, Liver Transplant Patient

Larry Kramer

Self – Writer/Activist/Liver Transplant Patient

David Crosby

Self – Musician, Liver Transplant Patient

David McCullough

Self – Author, Historian

Arthur Caplan

Self – Professor of Bioethics, NYU

Directed by

Tjardus Greidanus

Written by

Tjardus Greidanus

Produced by

Laura Davis