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Feature film — 2024

Auf Messers Schneide - Eine Geschichte der Chirurgie (2024)

7.5Documentary — History

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 The film contains fascinating and partly unpublished archive material.

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A high-signal pick with 2 votes.

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Director: Nina Koshofer

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Cast & crew

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Rachel Kalisher

Self, bioarchaeologist

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Zsolt Bereczki

Self

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Ira Rutkow

Self

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Marion Rusinger

Self

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Jean-Noël Fabiani-Salmon

Self

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Susan Vassallo

Self

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Christiane Druml

Self

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Thomas Schnalke

Self

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Levente Samu

Self

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Fabio Zampieri

Self, Associate Professor of History of Medicine, Università di Padova

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Sally Frampton

Self, author of 'Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy'

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Herwig Czech

Self

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