To Walk Again
Original title: Ooit weer lopen
Duration: 37’
Producer: Lut Gouwy
Director: Jacques Servaes
Participant: Philippe Bijvoet
Company: VRT - CANVAS
Scientific field: Medicine
Year: 2006
Country: Belgium
In January 2002 the promising career of Belgian top-athlete Marc Herremans comes abruptly to an end. He breaks his spinal cord in a fall during a training session and ends up in a wheelchair. Inspired by his hero Christopher Reeve, Marc Herremans starts a foundation which stimulates the research into paralyses. His dream is to walk again. Will science make his dream come true?