

Semmelweis
2023-11-30 · 127 min · ★ 7.8
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.
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Production details
- Directors
- Lajos Koltai
- Production companies
- Film Positive Productions, Szupermodern Stúdió
- Countries
- Hungary
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- USD 5,500,000
- Revenue
- USD 1,645,196
Top Cast
Miklós H. VecseiSemmelweis Ignác
Katica NagyEmma Hoffmann
László GálffiJohann Klein
Tamás KovácsFerdinand Kollár
Blanka MészárosJúlia Mendel
Ferenc ElekJakob Kolletschka
Ferenc LengyelBaumgartner
Anna GyörgyiGertrúd
Attila CsapóLajos Markusovszky
Tímea VirgaHelga
Lilla KizlingerSabina Hoffmann
Lajos KovácsFranz Meyer
Kornél SimonAlbert Fuchs
Márton PatkósBraun
Nelli SzűcsBaumgartnerné
Károly HajdukBlahó
István ZnamenákMosodás
Mariann HermányiCheeky nurse
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