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Status
Released
Release
2018
Runtime
1h 25m
Available options inUS
"A damning investigation into the World Health Organization's hidden practices."
Is the WHO sick? The filmmaker and mother Lilian Franck reveals clandestine influences by the tobacco, pharmaceutical and nuclear industries on the organization. She shows a frightening portrayal of our present society, in which governmental politics is becoming obsolete. "Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane." - Martin Luther King
31 Cast Members
Lilian Franck
Self
John Peterson Myers
Self
Robert Parsons
Self - Journalist
Wolfgang Wodarg
Self - Former Delegate to the European Council
Margaret Chan
Self - Director General of W.H.O.
Thomas Zeltner
Self - WHO Special Envoy
Douglas Bettcher
Self - W.H.O. Director of Non-communicable diseases Dept.
Vera da Costa e Silva
Self - Head of W.H.O. Framework Convention of Tobacco Control
Gregory Hartl
Self
German Velasquez
Self - Former WHO Director of Public Health Dept.
Marie-Paule Kieny
Self
Albert Osterhaus
Self
Angela Merkel
Self
Barack Obama
Self (archive footage)
Gregor Gysi
Self
Donald Trump
Self
Bill Gates
Self (archive footage)
Gaudenz Silberschmidt
Self
Patti Rundall
Self - Policy Director of Baby Milk Action (NGO)
Keith Baverstock
Former WHO Employee
