Dr. Marsh “is firstly an artist and then a surgeon. He’s willing to look at surgery and surgeons. He’s prepared to be vulnerable … He’s the very opposite of the arrogant, repressed surgical model.”

— Filmmaker Geoffrey Smith in Time Out London

“It is precisely this dilemma — a dilemma of his own making — that renders Henry so interesting, and it is this same dilemma that lets us see his troubled and compassionate humanity. His godlike surgical power to save lives is set against his fallible humanity, as a haunting memory of losing a young Ukrainian girl in an operation some years ago has led Henry to painfully embrace what he calls the “nobility of failure.” Indeed, this is the emotional center of my film and the universal theme at the heart of it: the struggle to do good things in a selfish and flawed world.

This is ultimately not a medical film, nor is it a portrait of a saint. Rather, it is about a man who openly wrestles with moral and ethical issues that touch every one of us.”

—Geoffrey Smith, director/producer, The English Surgeon in an interview with POV