A Matter of Life and Death: History of Hygiene

A Matter of Life and Death: History of Hygiene

Released on
Documentary, History, TV Movie
Runtime
52 mins
(2 votes)

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

  • Tobias Meister
  • Karl-Heinz Leven
  • Klaus Bergdolt
  • Mathieu Da Vinha
  • Harald Seifert
  • Klaus Vogel

Director

  • Claudia Spoden
  • Christian Feyerabend

Producers

  • Jana Asmuth
  • Stefan Schneider
  • Katharina Krohmann
  • María Villares Zabalza
  • Meike Savarin

Screenwriter

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