Dying to Survive (2018)

Original title

我不是药神

Directed by

Wen Muye, Jianv Han

Genre

comedy drama

Country

People's Republic of China

Runtime

1h 57m

Rated

IIA

Rating

8.2 of 10 from 217 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Chinese leukemia patient finds an affordable generic cancer drug in India and starts smuggling it into China for other patients. He faces legal trouble as he tries to get the medication to hundreds of people who cannot afford the expensive brand-name version.

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What happens

Dying to Survive is a 2018 Chinese comedy-drama film directed by Wen Muye in his feature film debut. The film is based on the real-life story of Lu Yong (陆勇), a Chinese leukemia patient who smuggled cheap and generic cancer medicine from India for 1,000 Chinese cancer sufferers in 2004. Dying to Survive stars Xu Zheng in the lead role, who also co-produced the film with Ning Hao. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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