Screening of “It is not a Life that doesn’t Move” in Hanoi and HCMC

Thu 12 Jun 2014, 7 pm
Amphitheater Nguyen Van Dao
Hanoi National University
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Fri 13 Jun 2014, 7 pm
Amphitheater 1
HCMC University of Natural Sciences

From the organizer:

You are invited to a documentary film on Yersin’s life and career.

In June 1894, exactly 120 years ago, Dr. Alexandre Yersin, the Swiss Doctor who also became French citizen and ultimately lived and died mainly as Vietnamese in his heart, discovered the bacillus causing the plague, humanity’s biggest scourge ever. This discovery was one of the biggest liberations of the human species in history.

Dr.Yersin was a brilliant scientist in his field, but he was much more. He was the untiring discoverer, inventor and creator of things and ideas that did not exist before. He was eminently humanist, by questing to attenuate concretely and practically the suffering in human life. Few individuals have lived such a life of useful creativity put in service of others, by living at the same time such a tremendously satisfying, rewarding and thus happy life.

The Film is a metaphor of a “life well lived”, it is an inspiration for children, youngsters and their parents, to learn that hard work and perseverance bring the sweetest fruits, that no satisfaction is greater than the one of having done a great effort and having – sometimes after some failures – achieved a goal.

To remind us of the scientific and social achievements of Yersin, but even more, to stress the importance of scientific research as prerequisite of any country’s success, the Hanoi National University has been chosen as venue for the world premiere of the movie: “It is not a life that doesn’t move”.

Before the projection of the film, four eminent Vietnamese scientists (Prof. Nguyen Tran Hien, Director of the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Prof. Le Gia Vinh, Vice President of Vietnam Medical Association, Prof. Dao Ngoc Hao, President of the Vietnam Veterinary Association and Prof. Nguyen Lan Dung, President of the Vietnam Biology Society), which are standing out in disciplines – which were also Yersin’s, namely bacteriology, general medicine, veterinary medicine and botanic sciences – will introduce the public into the universe of their scientific fields and their most fascinating and challenging aspects.

Language: French with Vietnamese subtitles

Free entrance.