Resistance Fighters – The Global Antibiotics Crisis

Resistance Fighters – The Global Antibiotics Crisis

95 mins | Documentary | March 24, 2019

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.

Resistance Fighters – The Global Antibiotics Crisis

95 mins | Documentary | March 24, 2019

Resistance Fighters – The Global Antibiotics Crisis
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.
Producers ARTE, ZDF, Broadview Pictures
Original title Resistance Fighters – Die globale Antibiotika-Krise
Directors Michael Wech
Writers Peter Wolf, Michael Wech

Cast

Patrick Winczewski

as Narrator (voice)

Tanveer Ahmed

as Self - Ass. Professor Plast. Surgery

Edward Allera

as Self - Pharmacist / Former Attorney

Uwe Behrens

as Self - MUT Alliance

Juan José Gómez Camacho

as Self - UN Ambassador

Slava Epstein

as Self - Professor at Northeastern University

Peter Greenhouse

as Self - Sexual Health expert

Tom Grumbly

as Self - Chairman SoAR Foundation (USA)

Alexander Kallen

as Self - Centres of Diseas Control and Preventiond

Maryn McKenna

as Self - Science journalist

Paul Menzies

as Self - Local Historian Middlesbrough (GB)

Gerd-Ludwig Meyer

as Self - Dialysist practitioner

Richard Novick

as Self - Microbioligist

Nolan Stone

as Self - Cattle Breeder

Randall Todd

as Self - Chief Officer CDC Reno

Kevin Brown

as Self - Medical Historian

Lei Chen

as Self - CDC Specialist Reno

David Cromwell

as Self - Former Doctor US Forces

Sally Davies

as Chief Medical Officer (GB)

Steven Finch

as Self - Relative of a victim

John Lynch

as Self - Doctor

Jim O'Neill

as Self - Economist

David Ricci

as Self - Victim

Ann Tucker

as Self - Former Nurse Middlesbrough (GB)

Timothy Walsh

as Self - Professor of Medical Microbiology