In the summer of 1928, the Scottish physician Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin by accident, but it would take two more decades and a world war before he and others succeeded in producing the antibiotic in such large quantities as to eradicate the epidemics of the time: typhus, syphilis, gangrene and tuberculosis.
- Status
- Released
- Production
- dmfilm und tv produktion, ZDF, ARTE
Keywords
- medicine
- penicillin
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Top Cast
Stephan Schad as Self - Narrator (voice)
Imanuel Humm as Alexander Flemming
Top Crew
Wilfried Hauke · Director, Writer
George Kochbeck · Composer
Ralf Gemmecke · Cinematographer
Stephan Haase · Editor
Christian Berg · Producer
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