Overview
The documentary tells the exciting story of the beginnings of surgery through to its specialization - a fascinating journey through time from the Stone Age with the first skull openings through antiquity and the early modern era to the first heart operation. The film was shot at the most important locations in the history of surgery - including Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Great Britain, Hungary and the USA. The film contains fascinating and partly unpublished archive material.
Director and cast
- Rachel Kalisher as Self, bioarchaeologist
- Zsolt Bereczki as Self
- Ira Rutkow as Self
- Marion Rusinger as Self
- Jean-Noël Fabiani-Salmon as Self
- Susan Vassallo as Self
- Christiane Druml as Self
- Thomas Schnalke as Self
- Levente Samu as Self
- Fabio Zampieri as Self, Associate Professor of History of Medicine, Università di Padova
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