Stairway to Light

  • Drama
  • History
11/3/1945
10
NR

John Nesbitt's Passing Parade

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of 18th Century French physician Dr. Philippe Pinel, who initiated enlightened, humane treatment of the mentally ill.

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  • Geronimo1967

    The unassuming Philippe Pinel (Wolfgang Zilzer) takes up a position in charge of a prison for the mentally ill in Paris and is horrified by what he discovers. There are people, unkempt and uncared for, who have been kept in the dark, chained to walls and fed a diet of gruel, bread and water - and they have been there for decades. Rather courageously, he concludes that chains and pain have never cured anyone so he determines to release some of these people back into society. Now there is an understandable scepticism from the public at large as none of those freed are tracked or monitored and so could easily revert to their violent ways, so they turn on this man as he walks to work. Its going to take a somewhat miraculous intervention if he i...

    July 6, 2025

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