Semmelweis

He saw the invisible, he did the impossible

A cerebral historical drama about a driven physician's obsessive quest to understand and stop a deadly epidemic, marked by intellectual struggle and the tragedy of institutional resistance.

Set in 19th century Vienna, Ignac Semmelweis, a short-tempered but passionate doctor, delivers babies and carries out autopsies on a daily basis while looking for the cause of puerperal fever, the mysterious epidemic that decimates patients in the hospital.