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Das Wunder von Kapstadt (2022)
Directed by Franziska Buch
Drama, History, TV Movie · 1h 45m
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 is trying to get a foothold in the male-dominated world of transplant surgery. But after she is passed over by her main professor 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, who, like his colleagues in Frankfurt, is planning a heart transplantation. Together with the surgeon Hamilton Naki, who due to apartheid can only join the team secretly, Lisa is a major contributor to the first heart transplant in history.
Cast
Sonja Gerhardt
Dr. Lisa Scheel
Alexander Scheer
Dr. Christiaan Barnard
Loyiso Macdonald
Hamilton Naki
C
Clara Wolfram
McCarthy
Vikash Mathura
Vijay
Arnd Klawitter
De Groen
Fritz Karl
Prof. Kohlfeld
Thimo Meitner
Rupert von Aigner
Michaela Winterstein
Karin Scheel
R
Raphael Keric
Niekerk
Peter Miklusz
Moderator
Johannes Krimmel
Van der Straaten
Crew
- Director
- Franziska Buch
- Screenplay
- Chris Silber
- Director of Photography
- Bella Halben
- Editor
- Tobias Haas
- Producer
- Christian Popp, Tobias Stille
Details
- Release date
- 2022-10-04
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Genres
- Drama, History, TV Movie
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- Germany
- Production
- Producers at Work, MIA Film, ORF, ARD, ARD Degeto