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Original Title: Resistance Fighters – Die globale Antibiotika-Krise
Status
Released
Release
2019
Runtime
1h 35m
Available options inUS
The UN General Assembly regards antibiotic-resistance as a "global and most urgent threat". The WHO alarms that we could fall back into a "post-antibiotic age". The film tells us how we got there: It is a story about how negligence, greed, and short-sightedness have rendered the lifesaving effects of antibiotics powerless. It is a science-thriller about disillusioned, fighting doctors, rebellious scientists, patients wrestling with life-threatening diseases and diplomats searching for a global solution. They all are Resistance Fighters.
25 Cast Members
Patrick Winczewski
Narrator (voice)
Tanveer Ahmed
Self - Ass. Professor Plast. Surgery
Edward Allera
Self - Pharmacist / Former Attorney
Uwe Behrens
Self - MUT Alliance
Juan José Gómez Camacho
Self - UN Ambassador
Slava Epstein
Self - Professor at Northeastern University
Peter Greenhouse
Self - Sexual Health expert
Tom Grumbly
Self - Chairman SoAR Foundation (USA)
Alexander Kallen
Self - Centres of Diseas Control and Preventiond
Maryn McKenna
Self - Science journalist
Paul Menzies
Self - Local Historian Middlesbrough (GB)
Gerd-Ludwig Meyer
Self - Dialysist practitioner
Richard Novick
Self - Microbioligist
Nolan Stone
Self - Cattle Breeder
Randall Todd
Self - Chief Officer CDC Reno
Kevin Brown
Self - Medical Historian
Lei Chen
Self - CDC Specialist Reno
David Cromwell
Self - Former Doctor US Forces
Sally Davies
Chief Medical Officer (GB)
Steven Finch
Self - Relative of a victim
