Synopse

The true story of an operation which was a revolution, not only for the world of medicine. Frankfurt 1967. A young doctor called Lisa Scheel (Sonja Gerhardt) is trying to get a foothold in the male-dominated world of transplant surgery. But after she is passed over by her main professor (Fritz Karl) in favour of a male applicant, on the spur of the moment Lisa heads off to Cape Town. Here, she starts work for Dr. Barnaard (Alexander Scheer), who, like his colleagues in Frankfurt, is planning a heart transplantation. Together with the surgeon Hamilton Naki (Loyiso MacDonald), who due to apartheid can only join the team secretly, Lisa is a major contributor to the first heart transplant in history.

Regie

FRANZISKA BUCH (*1960 in Stuttgart) studied at the TV and Film School in Munich. She has won several awards and made numerous cinema and TV films, including Emil and the Detectives (2001), Bibi Blocksberg (2004), Käthe Kruse (2014).

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