A Matter of Life and Death: History of Hygiene
2021
6.5 (2)
52 min
German
Hygienic habits are as old as the various human civilizations; but each era establishes its own customs: whether private or public, everywhere and at all times, methods of personal cleanliness have depended on cultural conventions, religious morals, political ideologies and economic interests; because the control of basic hygiene has also been and is one more tool in the infinite exercise of power over the masses.
- Status
- Released
- Production
- ARTE, ZDF, Gruppe 5
Keywords
- hygiene
- medicine
- docudrama
- pandemic
- microbiology
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Top Cast
Tobias Meister as Self - Narrator (voice)
Karl-Heinz Leven as Self - Medicine Historian
Klaus Bergdolt as Self - Medicine Historian
Mathieu Da Vinha as Self - Historian
Harald Seifert as Self - Microbiologist
Klaus Vogel as Self - Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Director
Top Crew
Christian Feyerabend · Director, Writer
Claudia Spoden · Director, Writer
Stefan Schneider · Producer
María Villares Zabalza · Producer
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