A Matter of Life and Death: History of Hygiene

Overview

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.

Directed by Claudia Spoden, Christian Feyerabend

Top cast

Tobias Meister

Self - Narrator (voice)

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Karl-Heinz Leven

Self - Medicine Historian

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Klaus Bergdolt

Self - Medicine Historian

Mathieu Da Vinha

Self - Historian

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Harald Seifert

Self - Microbiologist

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Klaus Vogel

Self - Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Director

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