The Second face

"Facing Cancer" tells the story of a doctor who is afflicted by the disease he is trying to cure: cancer. As an oncologist in Boston, Wolfram Goessling encounters a disease every day that spreads terror around the world: cancer. As a doctor, he tries to cure it, as a scientist, he researches it, and as a professor at Harvard Medical School, he teaches its treatment. But when his family doctor tells him that the pimple on his face is an angiosarcoma, a particularly insidious cancer, he goes from doctor to patient - his chance of survival is four percent. He must undergo chemotherapy, radiation and face an operation that will change his appearance forever. The story is told from the perspective of the patient whose life is at stake; the husband and father who does not want to die under any circumstances, and the doctor and scientist who knows the disease inside and out. "Survival" is a powerful and emotional film about hope and its price - and about the light at the end of the tunnel. —ADR Das Erste