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A Matter of Life and Death: History of Hygiene

6.5/10

March 19, 2021

52 minutes

Claudia Spoden

Documentary History TV Movie

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.

Movie Details

Release Date

March 19, 2021

Runtime

52 minutes

Director

Claudia Spoden

Rating

6.5/10

Production Companies

ARTE ZDF Gruppe 5

Cast

Tobias Meister

Self - Narrator (voice)

Karl-Heinz Leven

Self - Medicine Historian

Klaus Bergdolt

Self - Medicine Historian

Mathieu Da Vinha

Self - Historian

Harald Seifert

Self - Microbiologist

Klaus Vogel

Self - Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Director