VISIT 19TH CENTURY VIENNA IN SEMMELWEIS HISTORICAL BIOPIC WHICH WILL REPRESENT HUNGARY IN OSCAR RACE NEXT YEAR

  SEMMELWEIS TRAILER  

FOR HUNGARY'S CANDIDATE IN OSCAR RACE

The film is on Netflix in some countries

The Oscar season is slowly beginning, countries have started choosing films that will be their candidates in the best foreign movie category, and Hungary has chosen SEMMELWEIS period set drama which will be the second time that Lajos Koltai represents his country. 

 

WHAT IS THE STORY?

This historical biopic centres around a famous Hungarian doctor Ignac Semmelweis (Miklós H. Vecsei) who introduced antiseptic procedures at a Vienna maternity clinic. In 1847 a mysterious epidemic is raging in a maternity clinic in Vienna, while the doctor Ignác Semmelweis tries to defeat puerperal fever by going against all traditional theories. After playing in Hungarian cinemas earlier this year it became their most watched movie in last five years. The film is available for streaming on Netflix in some countries, methinks.