The African Doctor (2016) on Netflix
NR20161h 36mBiographyComedyDrama
In 1975, Seyolo Zantoko, a doctor from the Congo, becomes the physician in Marly-Gomont, a village in northern France. His wife Anne and their children, Sivi and Kamini, expect Paris.
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Seyolo Zantoko finishes his medical studies in Lille in 1975, the only African in his class. He turns down a post as personal doctor to President Mobutu of Zaire, unwilling to serve a government he considers corrupt, and takes instead a job offered by the mayor of Marly-Gomont in northern France. He telephones Anne to say he has work in France; she and the children, Sivi and Kamini, picture Paris, and the village disappoints them. Seyolo stays on for his children's schooling and in the hope of gaining French citizenship. Life in Marly-Gomont is difficult: the villagers have never met black people and keep their distance, the children are taunted at school, and patients avoid his practice, going instead to the French physician in the next village.
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