Story
For risks and side-effects: GDR citizens as unknowing guinea pigs. 1988. Armin Glaser (Florian Stetter), first lieutenant in the Stasi, lives with his family in Karl-Marx-Stadt. When his daughter (Lena Urzendowski) is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, he puts all his hopes in a new treatment at the local hospital. But soon inconsistencies in the therapy occur. The ward doctor (Corinna Harfouch) also acts deviously. Armin uses his contacts via his commanding officer (Jörg Schüttauf) to get hold of information. But the closer he gets to the truth, the less he can believe it. Based on actual events, the film examines a barely noted chapter of East-West German history: to get their hands on foreign currency, for years the GDR allowed West German pharma companies to try out new medication on patients at East German hospitals without their knowledge.
Director
URS EGGER (*1955) studied film direction at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. Since the end of the 1970s he has made cinema and TV films like Opera Ball (1998), Restrisiko (2011), Ein Kind wird gesucht (2017) and most recently the award-winning TV film Shillings From Heaven. In 2015, his film Der Bankraub was shown at FILMFEST HAMBURGInfo
Kranke Geschäfte
Fiction Feature
German
Televisionen//FF2019
Germany
2019
105 min
OV
Urs Egger
Johannes Betz
Florian Stetter, Felicitas Woll, Lena Urzendowsky, Corinna Harfouch, Stephan Grossmann, Johannes Allmayer, Matthias Matschke, Amber Bongard, Jörg Schüttauf, Alexander Beyer, Nina Gummich, Sanne Schnapp, Falk Rockstroh, Sebastian Hülk und Udo Samel
Franziska An der Gassen, Christian Becker
Lukas Strebel
Benjamin Hembus
Ina Siefert
Adela Hakova
ZDF, Beta Film & Constantin Film
Beta Film & Constantin Film (DACH)
Rat Pack Filmproduktion in Ko-Produktion mit An der Gassen Film im Auftrag des ZDF
Sarah Mohrat, Ratpack Filmproduktion: sarah.mohrat@ratpack-film.de