Semmelweis (2023) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained

Release, runtime and language

2023 · 127 mins · Hungarian

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Directed by

Lajos Koltai

Starring

Gloria Ormandlaky, Ferenc Lengyel, István Znamenák, Károly Hajduk, Vanda Kovács, Anna Györgyi

Budget

$5.5M

Set in 19th century Vienna, the film follows Ignac Semmelweis, a determined doctor struggling to understand a devastating epidemic of puerperal fever. Balancing his work delivering babies and performing autopsies, Semmelweis’s passionate search for the cause of the mysterious illness challenges the medical practices of the time and leads him to a groundbreaking, albeit initially rejected, discovery.