Jérôme Lejeune: aux plus petits d'entre les miens Filming Locations
Where was Jérôme Lejeune: aux plus petits d'entre les miens filmed? Jérôme Lejeune: aux plus petits d'entre les miens was filmed in 2 locations across France and United States in the following places:
Jérôme Lejeune: aux plus petits d'entre les miens Filming Locations
France, in Western Europe, encompasses medieval cities, alpine villages and Mediterranean beaches. Paris, its capital, is famed for its fashion houses, classical art museums including the Louvre and monuments like the Eiffel Tower. The country is also renowned for its wines and sophisticated cuisine. Lascaux’s ancient cave drawings, Lyon’s Roman theater and the vast Palace of Versailles attest to its rich history.
The U.S. is a country of 50 states covering a vast swath of North America, with Alaska in the northwest and Hawaii extending the nation’s presence into the Pacific Ocean. Major Atlantic Coast cities are New York, a global finance and culture center, and capital Washington, DC. Midwestern metropolis Chicago is known for influential architecture and on the west coast, Los Angeles' Hollywood is famed for filmmaking.
Jérôme Lejeune: aux plus petits d'entre les miens (2015)
Physician and genetics researcher, Jérôme Lejeune acquired an international reputation in 1958 when he discovered the Trisomy 21, cause of Down Syndrome. He hoped his discovery would change the way people looked at children with Down Syndrome, who came by hundreds to his medical consultations. He had only one obsession : to find someday a cure. The meteoric rise of this young French scientist will be be stopped in a flash in 1969. While receiving the William Allen Award in San Francisco, the highest award in genetics, he delivered a speech defending the human dignity of the embryo, causing an earthquake in the scientific sphere. A few months before, he realized that his discovery would be used against his convictions, by opening the door to abortion of embryos with genetic abnormalities. Who was Jérôme Lejeune? A great scientist or a man of faith ? Nowadays what is the state of research on Trisomy 21, in which he had placed so much hope? 20 years after his death, the director François Lespes wondered about this man's complex personality, who had such an extraordinary fate. « Jerome Lejeune - To the least of these my brothers & sisters » is investigating on the man of science and beliefs, from Paris to Indianapolis, from friends to confrères, from supporters to detractors.