In the summer of 1928, the Scottish physician Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin by accident, but it would take two more decades and a world war before he and others succeeded in producing the antibiotic in such large quantities as to eradicate the epidemics of the time: typhus, syphilis, gangrene and tuberculosis.

Cast:Stephan Schad, Imanuel Humm,

Genre:Documentary, History, TV Movie,

country:Germany,

Production:dmfilm und tv produktion, ZDF, ARTE,