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The docu-fiction KILLER KEIME - WENN ANTIBIOTIKA NICHT MEHR WIRKEN addresses the global threat posed by antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
The film takes a scientifically sound look at the questions of what lies ahead if antibiotics lose their effectiveness and how and why resistance continues to spread.
The focus is increasingly placed on Germany and the German healthcare system, German agriculture and the German pharmaceutical industry.
The film operates on two levels: in the documentary part, various experts and protagonists in the field explain and comment on the problem.
Among others, microbiologists from the Robert Koch Institute, the Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection Julia Klöckner and a patient suffering from an infection with a multi-resistant germ have their say.
In addition, the second, fictional part of the film recreates the outbreak of a multi-resistant germ in a German hospital with the help of elaborately produced scenes.
The two parts are interwoven and alternate repeatedly throughout the film.
The production was also supported by expert advice from the Robert Koch Institute.
First broadcast: Tuesday, November 26, 2019, 8:15 p.m. on ZDF.
