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Drama - Development 2023

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Drama, TV Series
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Duration
- 60 mn
- Writer(s)
- Ricky DUJANY
- Producer(s)
- Malcolm WINTER (m and m film productions), Monika GERGELOVA (m and m film productions)
- Synopsis
- Vienna, 1847. When young Hungarian obstetrician Ignaz Semmelweis discovers that the cause of deadly childbed fever epidemic among· women is the lack of hygiene in doctors and students' hands, he introduces hand-washing protocols. As deaths plummet to almost zero percent, he faces the ferocious opposition of the medical community, until the extreme consequences.