A Matter of Life and Death: History of Hygiene

Synopsis

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.

Cast & Crew

Featured Cast

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

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