STEVEN ANDREW is moved beyond words by a historical account of mining in Britain made from the words of the miners themselves
A fortune out of spent pennies
MARIA DUARTE is intrigued by the fascinating tale of a Czech herbal healer who diagnosed his patients by examining their urine

Charlatan (15)
Directed by Agnieszka Holland
⭑⭑⭑
DUBBED the “oracle of urine,” this fascinating and complex drama set in the 1950s is based on the little known but real-life story of Czech herbal healer Jan Mikolasek, who could diagnose people’s ailments just by looking at their pee.
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