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Celebrated heart surgeon Thomas Vrain supports the research of an offbeat scientist who has invented an artificial heart. Against the advice of the Ethics Committee, Dr. Vrain decides to perform the first artificial heart transplant.
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00:10Knife, heavy scissors, hold ventilation.
00:16Okay.
00:18At any age, at any time, it can happen to anyone.
00:23You can't breathe, you can hardly move, you know one thing, the mountain of death is on
00:28you.
00:29You would give anything in the world for just one ordinary breath.
00:32You mustn't be afraid.
00:34They have come to the edge.
00:36She is praying for a miracle.
00:38Supposing I were to tell you that there was something radical, something never tried before.
00:45Where would it be outside?
00:47Oh, right where your own heart is now.
00:49Beside it?
00:52No, no one plays a bit.
00:55The dividing line between life and death is a step across the threshold.
01:01Donald Sutherland.
01:05Threshold.

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