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screening time
Monica Film Center, 7:00pm, 27 October, 2023Semmelweis
2023, feature, drama, 124 minutes
1947, Vienna. Ignác Semmelweis, the short-tempered but passionate Hungarian doctor delivers babies and carries out autopsies on a daily basis whilst looking for the cause of puerperal fever, the mysterious epidemic that decimates patients in the hospital. His boss prohibits him from conducting research into the subject and sends his right-hand man to cross him at every turn. He also threatens a young midwife, Emma Hoffmann, to spy on him. After a rocky start, the relationship between Semmelweis and Emma develops into a romance. When Semmelweis’s friend gets wounded mid-autopsy and dies with the same symptoms as the women in labour, Semmelweis discovers the cause and prevention of childbed fever. Half of his peers discredit him, yet he carries on with the fight to prove his theory at all cost.
Director: | Lajos Koltai |
Screenplay: | Balázs Maruszki |
Director of photography: | András Nagy |
Editor: | Zoltán Kovács |
Music: | Attila Pacsay |
Visual design: | Pater Sparrow |
Costumes: | Györgyi Szakács |
Producer: | Dr. Tamás Lajos, Joe Vida |
Production company: | Szupermodern Studio |
Cast: | Miklós Vecsei H., Katica Nagy, László Gálffi, Tamás Kovács, Ferenc Lengyel, Nelli Szűcs, Ferenc Elek |