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Quick Info

Rating

8.1/10

Release2023

Runtime2h 7m

StatusReleased

Budget$5,500,000

Revenue$1,645,196

Production

Film Positive Productions

Szupermodern Stúdió

Movie

Semmelweis

2023

2h 7m

8.1

History

Drama

Synopsis

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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