Directed by:
Frigyes BánCinematography:
István PásztorComposer:
András MihályCast:
Imre Apáthi, Margit Thurzó, Tivadar Uray, Jenő Horváth, József Timár, István Egri, Lajos Pándy, Sándor Deák, Iván Darvas, Juci Komlós, Erzsi Balogh (more)Plots(1)
Vienna, 1846. At night, the good-hearted coachman Hammer finds a young woman in labour at one of the gates and takes her to doctor Semmelweis at the women's clinic, whom he knows well. The woman is crazy with fear; mothers die there. Doctor Semmelweis finds no peace because of the surprisingly high number of death-cases at the clinic. He is absorbed in books, makes statistics. Yet it is by accident that he understands that the pathogenic is carried over to mothers by dissecting doctors. Incident again helps him to realise that hand-washing in water sterilised with chlorine has a disinfecting effect. It is all that simple, yet trying to persuade his colleagues, the profession and the world equals attempting the impossible. His discovery is not favoured by the fact that he had supported the revolutionaries during the 1848 revolution. Towards the end of his life, Semmelweis, whose entire life is devoted to fighting child-bed fever, looses his sense with the struggle. The acknowledgement by Pasteur, his great contemporary, arrives too late. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Imre Apáthi
Austria-Hungary
![Tivadar Uray](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/717/161717371_f3b049.jpg)
Tivadar Uray
Austria-Hungary
Jenő Horváth
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Oh, Bloody Life (1984)
![József Timár](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/519/163519623_d37aa2.jpg)
József Timár
Austria-Hungary
![István Egri](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/278/278885_07ecf7.jpg)
István Egri
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Two Half-Times in Hell (1961)
St. Peter's Umbrella (1958)
Lajos Pándy
Kingdom of Hungary
![Sándor Deák](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/739/162739686_6de1c5.jpg)
Sándor Deák
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Last Nabob (1966)
The Wind Blows Under Your Feet (1976)
![Iván Darvas](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/270/270597_0f5893.jpg)
Iván Darvas
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Last Nabob (1966)
Love (1971)
Cold Days (1966)
![Juci Komlós](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/519/163519598_811c18.jpg)
Juci Komlós
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
The Man with the Golden Touch (1962)
Cat City (1986)
Erzsi Balogh
Kingdom of Hungary
![László Ungváry](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/120/163120625_9865e9.jpg)
László Ungváry
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Corporal and Others (1965)
![Tibor Molnár](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/120/163120535_e0e7a0.jpg)
Tibor Molnár
Kingdom of Hungary
Best movies:
Two Half-Times in Hell (1961)
My Way Home (1965)
The Red and the White (1967)
![Tivadar Bilicsi](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/392/161392089_59b81d.jpg)
Tivadar Bilicsi
Austria-Hungary
István Csók
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Turkish Spear (1973)
Gyula Justh
Austria-Hungary
Dezső Kertész
Austria-Hungary
Mária Keresztessy
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Recovery (1974)
Ants' Nest (1971)
György Kürthy
Austria-Hungary
Antal Lédeczi
Austria-Hungary