Mar 19, 2021
52 min
Full-HD

A Matter of Life and Death: History of Hygiene (2021)

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.

Category

Documentary History TV Movie

Country

Germany

Companies

ARTE ZDF Gruppe 5

Tobias Meister

Self - Narrator (voice)

Karl-Heinz Leven

Self - Medicine Historian

Klaus Bergdolt

Self - Medicine Historian

Mathieu Da Vinha

Self - Historian

Harald Seifert

Self - Microbiologist

Klaus Vogel

Self - Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Director

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