A Matter of Life and Death: History of Hygiene(2021)

🎬52 min
📅2021-03-19
🎭Documentary, History, TV Movie
6.5/10

Overview

Hygienic habits are as old as the various human civilizations; but each era establishes its own customs: whether private or public, everywhere and at all times, methods of personal cleanliness have depended on cultural conventions, religious morals, political ideologies and economic interests; because the control of basic hygiene has also been and is one more tool in the infinite exercise of power over the masses.

Production

ARTE, ZDF, Gruppe 5

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Cast

Tobias Meister
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Karl-Heinz Leven
as Self - Medicine Historian
Klaus Bergdolt
as Self - Medicine Historian
Mathieu Da Vinha
as Self - Historian
Harald Seifert
as Self - Microbiologist
Klaus Vogel
as Self - Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Director