A Matter of Life and Death: History of Hygiene

Mar 19, 2021

0h 52m

★ 6.5

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.

Genres

Documentary

History

TV Movie

Production Companies

ARTE

ZDF

Gruppe 5

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Cast

Self - Narrator (voice)

Tobias Meister

Self - Medicine Historian

Karl-Heinz Leven

Self - Medicine Historian

Klaus Bergdolt

Self - Historian

Mathieu Da Vinha

Self - Microbiologist

Harald Seifert

Self - Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Director

Klaus Vogel

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