Semmelweis (2023) - meet & greet
The guests of the post-screening discussion will be the film's creators, director LAJOS KOLTAI, KATICA NAGY and LÁSZLÓ GÁLFFI, the film's actors.
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Today he is remembered as a legend: a man of courage and steadfastness, a man of both knowledge and justice. He is not known as the saviour of mothers for nothing. But in his own time he was seen in a very different light. The other Hungarian doctors he worked with in the obstetrics clinic in Vienna thought he was mad: he was not interested in the pleasures of the imperial city, he was just doing his job. The Austrian doctors thought him unbearably violent: he had only one goal in mind, the health of the mothers entrusted to him; and for the sake of this sacred cause he broke every rule and every rule. And for his boss, the head of the clinic, he was the living, unpleasant conscience: for if Dr Semmelweis's theory is true, and the obstetricians are spreading the disease that has killed so many women, then they are all murderers...
And there was a midwife working alongside him, who saw in him what no one else did: a man who wanted love and reassurance.
Uránia Nemzeti Filmszínház
The Uránia National Film Theatre is unique among Hungarian cinemas as it is the only national film and cultural centre operating as an institute It is the film profession’s counterpart of the National Theatre and the Opera House, of which most important task is to present and show the treasures of contemporary and classical film art as well as organising film clubs, national and international film festivals, and other events (first nights).