SEMMELWEIS
Director: Lajos Koltai
Script: Balázs Maruszki
Camera: András Nagy H.S.C.
Design: Pater Sparrow
Music: Attila Pacsay
Edit: Zoltán Kovács H.S.E.
Cast: Miklós H. Vecsei, Katica Nagy, László Gálffi, Tamás Kovács, Ferenc Lengyel, Nelli Szűcs, Ferenc Elek, Timea Varga, Lajos Kovács, Blanka Mészáros
Producer: Tamás Lajos
Production: Szupermodern Filmstúdió, Joe Vida
Year: 2023
Timing: 124 min
Censored: 18+
In 1847, a mysterious epidemic is raging in a maternity clinic in Vienna. The Hungarian doctor Ignác Semmelweis tries to defeat puerperal fever by going against all traditional theories introducing antiseptic procedures in clinic. Today he is remembered as a legend: brave and relentless, a man of both knowledge and hunger for justice. He is known as the saviour of mothers for a reason. But in his own time, he was seen in a very different way. The other doctors thought he was mad and unbearably violent. He had only one goal in mind, the health of the mothers in his care; and for the sake of this sacred cause, he crossed every barrier and broke every rule.