Ignaz Semmelweis - Arzt der Frauen (1988)
- Directed by
- Michael Verhoeven
- Genre
- drama
- Country
- Hungarian People's Republic, Germany, Austria
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
In 1840s Vienna a Hungarian doctor realizes that childbirth fever is spreading because doctors themselves are not washing their hands. He struggles to convince his colleagues and save the mothers.
somberhistoricalclinicalploddingearnestgrimfocusedperiod-medical
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