The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)

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Country: USA
Genres: Biography, Drama, History
Release: 1936-02-01
Director: William Dieterle (1893–1972)
Writers: Sheridan Gibney , Pierre Collings
Language: English | French | Russian
Stars: Paul Muni (I) (1895–1967) , Josephine Hutchinson , Anita Louise , Donald Woods , Fritz Leiber , Henry O’Neill (I) (1891–1961) , Porter Hall (I) (1888–1953) , Raymond Brown , Akim Tamiroff , Halliwell Hobbes (1877–1962)
Runtime: 86 min
Awards: Won 3 Oscars. 5 wins & 2 nominations total
AKA: A Vida de Pasteur (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Pasteur (Poland) , The Story of Louis Pasteur (India) , Louis Pasteur'ün Hayatı (Turkey) , La vie de Louis Pasteur (France, French Republic) , The Story of Louis Pasteur (Canada) , Kagakusha no michi (Japan) , Pasteur (Hungary) , The Story of Louis Pasteur (United Kingdom) , La vita del dottor Pasteur (Italy) , The Story of Louis Pasteur (Canada) , 科学者の道 (Japan) , Louis Pasteur története (Hungary) , A História de Louis Pasteur (Brazil) , Louis Pasteur (Greece) , La tragedia de Louis Pasteur (Spain) , Luis Pasteur (Argentina) , The Story of Louis Pasteur (Australia) , Louis Pasteur (Austria) , A Vida de Louis Pasteur (Brazil) , El enemigo del hombre o La vida trágica de Luis Pasteur (Mexico) , Jeden z Nesmrtelných , Tri Louis Pasteur (Finland) , The Story of Louis Pasteur , Louis Pasteur (Sweden) , Louis Pasteur - menneskehedens velgører (Denmark) , लुई पाश्चर की कहानी (India) , Erbfeind der Menschheit (Austria) , The Story of Louis Pasteur (United States of America) , Louis Pasteur (Germany) , Louis Pasteur (Norway) , Повесть о Луи Пастере
Plot: In 1860 Paris, chemist Louis Pasteur is considered a quack within the medical community for advocating that doctors and surgeons wash their hands and boil their instruments to destroy microbes that can kill their patients. He came across this belief when discovering microscopic organisms in sour wine, the organisms which could be killed if heated sufficiently. The belief among the scientific community at large is that the organisms are the result of disease and not the cause. This belief is despite the fact that thirty percent of women die in childbirth due to child bed disease, accounting for twenty thousand annual deaths in Paris alone. The debate takes Pasteur all the way to a meeting with Emperor Napoleon III and his physician, Dr. Charbonnet, who is one of the leading opponents of Pasteur. Several years later - France now a republic - much of Pasteur's reputation changes as a government sanctioned experiment with anthrax and sheep shows that a vaccine created by Pasteur proves effective. As Pasteur begins work on finding the cause and a cure for rabies, which proves a more difficult challenge, he still has his detractors, including Dr. Charbonnet. This continuing debate brings about his biggest challenge: proving that microbes are the cause of all disease. Through it all, he is supported not only by his family, but Dr. Jean Martel, who was once a junior physician in the emperor's court and a physician within the republic's government, but who now works with Pasteur and is his son-in-law. But an act of bravado by Charbonnet may ultimately prove to be the breakthrough for which Pasteur is looking. Moving the experimental treatments from animals to humans proves a bigger obstacle, as is Charbonnet's need to win at all cost in the court of public opinion.
IMDB:tt0028313