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Pasteur (1935)

Pasteur poster
Directed by
Sacha Guitry
Genre
drama film
Country
France
Runtime
1h 11m
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This biographical film shows the life and scientific work of Louis Pasteur. It covers his major discoveries and the impact they had on medicine and society.

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What happens

Pasteur is a 1935 French biographical drama film directed by Sacha Guitry and Fernand Rivers and starring Guitry, Maurice Schutz and Gaston Dubosc. It portrays the life of the French scientist Louis Pasteur. Guitry had previous written a 1919 play about Pasteur, in which his father Lucien Guitry had starred. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Gys. Location shooting took place at the Sorbonne in Paris and around Pasteur's hometown of Arbois in Eastern France. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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