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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.
Director
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).Info
Das Wunder von Kapstadt
Fiction Feature
German
Televisionen//FF2022
South Africa, Czech Republic
2022
105 min
OV
Franziska Buch
Christoph Silber
Sonja Gerhardt, Alexander Scheer, Loyiso MacDonald, Clara Wolfram, Fritz Karl, Arnd Klawitter, Thimo Meitner, Justus Czaja, Michaela Winterstein, Rob van Vuuren, Vikash Mathura
Christian Popp
Bella Halben
Pavel Bělohlávek, Greg Albert
Tobias Haas
Martina Eisenreich
Iris Trescher-Lorenz
Esther Amuser
Liza Stutzky / Bonnie Bouman (Südafrika)
Patrick Noel Simon (ARD Degeto), Christoph Pellander (ARD Degeto), Dr. Andrea Bogad-Radatz (ORF)
Bavaria Media GmbH
Producers at Work Film GmbH
ARD Degeto, ORF, MIA Film s.r.o. (Tschechien) und DO Productions (Südafrika)
Producers at Work Film GmbH, office@producersatwork.de
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