Beautiful dreamers

A young doctor meets Walt Whitman in 1880 at a medical conference and invites him to visit the asylum for the mentally ill in the doctor's home town of London, Canada. At first Whitman angers the town people with his radical ideas about individuality and guiltless sexuality, but gradually they are won over by Whitman's compassion and the liberating magic his ideas work on the asylum inmates.

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"A young doctor meets Walt Whitman in 1880 at a medical conference and invites him to visit the asylum for the mentally ill in the doctor's home town of London, Canada. At first Whitman angers the town people with his radical ideas about individuality and guiltless sexuality, but gradually they are won over by Whitman's compassion and the liberating magic his ideas work on the asylum inmates."
"A young doctor meets Walt Whitman in 1880 at a medical conference and invites him to visit the asylum for the mentally ill in the doctor's home town of London, Canada. At first Whitman angers the town people with his radical ideas about individuality and guiltless sexuality, but gradually they are won over by Whitman's compassion and the liberating magic his ideas work on the asylum inmates."@en
"Walt Whitman an American poet becomes a catalyst for change at a mental asylum in a small town in Canada."@en
"Based on historical events, this film recounts the meeting of poet Walt Whitman and the superintendent of a London insane asylum and Whitman's subsequent visit to the asylum. Whitman's avant-garde and enlightened ideas on mental illness had a profound impact on the superintendent and the asylum."
"A young doctor meets Walt Whitman at a medical conference and invites him to visit the asylum for the mentally ill in the doctor's home town. At first Whitman angers the town people with his radical ideas about individuality and guiltless sexuality, but gradually they are won over by Whitman's compassion and the liberating magic his ideas work on the asylum inmates. Based on a true story."
"When the superintendent of the London insane asylum, Dr. Maurice Bucke, meets poet Walt Whitman, his life and that of his wife and patients is radically changed. Whitman has avant-garde ideas on the subject of mental illness, sexuality, the emotions and life in general -- ideas that are also profoundly humanistic and enlightened. This film is based on historical events."@en
"The superintendent of the London, Ontario, insane asylum, Dr. Maurice Bucke, despairs of the treatment methods in use during the Victorian era, which consist essentially of restraint and electroshock. At a conference in Philadelphia, he makes the acquaintance of poet Walt Whitman. This meeting will radically change his life, and that of his wife and patients. Whitman, who travels to London at Bucke's invitation, has avant-garde ideas on the subject of mental illness, sexuality, the emotions and life in general--ideas that are also profoundly humanistic and enlightened. This film is based on historical events."@en
"A young doctor meets Walt Whitman at a medical conference and invites him to visit the asylum for the mentally ill in the doctor's home town. At first Whitman angers the town people with his radical ideas about individuality and guiltless sexuality, but gradually they are won over by Whitman's compassion and the liberating magic his ideas work on the asylum inmates."@en