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

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

2021-03-19 Germany 52 Min. PG-13
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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.

Cast

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