Plot Summary
In the summer of 1928, the Scottish physician Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin by accident, but it would take two more decades and a world war before he and others succeeded in producing the antibiotic in such large quantities as to eradicate the epidemics of the time: typhus, syphilis, gangrene and tuberculosis.
Movie Details
- Original Title
- Die Penizillin-Story
- Status
- released
- Original Language
- de
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Production Companies
dmfilm und tv produktion
ZDF
ARTE