

The true story of an operation which was a revolution, not only for the world of medicine. Frankfurt 1967. A young doctor called Lisa Scheel is trying to get a foothold in the male-dominated world of transplant surgery. But after she is passed over by her main professor in favour of a male applicant, on the spur of the moment Lisa heads off to Cape Town. Here, she starts work for Dr. Barnaard, who, like his colleagues in Frankfurt, is planning a heart transplantation. Together with the surgeon Hamilton Naki, who due to apartheid can only join the team secretly, Lisa is a major contributor to the first heart transplant in history.
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Cast
- Sonja GerhardtDr. Lisa Scheel
- Alexander ScheerDr. Christiaan Barnard
- Loyiso MacdonaldHamilton Naki
- Clara WolframMcCarthy
- Vikash MathuraVijay
- Arnd KlawitterDe Groen
- Fritz KarlProf. Kohlfeld
- Thimo MeitnerRupert von Aigner
- Michaela WintersteinKarin Scheel
- Raphael KericNiekerk
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- Franziska BuchDirector
- Chris SilberScreenplay
- Bella HalbenDirector of Photography
- Tobias HaasEditor
- Christian PoppProducer
- Tobias StilleProducer
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