Movie Details
Cast & Crew
G
George Kochbeck
Original Music Composer
W
Wilfried Hauke
Director
W
Wilfried Hauke
Writer
R
Ralf Gemmecke
Director of Photography
N
Niko Günther
Production Director
C
Christian Berg
Producer
Penicillin A Medical Revolution
53 minHistory,
Documentary,
TV Movie
Plot
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
