Danube Hospital

- AT 2012
- human interest
- science
- 75'
- Nikolaus Geyrhalter
DANUBE HOSPITAL, a portrait of one of Europe’s largest hospitals, shows the daily routines and work processes at a powerful and highly complex institution. By depicting a modern healthcare facility, DANUBE HOSPITAL holds a mirror to our society to show how it deals with health and illness, life and death.

Nikolaus Geyrhalter observes what goes on in a variety of zones, in conference areas, ORs, patients’ rooms, the disinfection and pathology departments, and the kitchen. As the film visits all these areas, it follows an ingenious principle of a puzzle whose pieces produce an effect only when fully assembled.

A portrait of an institution in which the relationships between processes that are invisible to patients and visitors are shown in all their precision.

director(s): Nikolaus Geyrhalter
cinematographer(s): Nikolaus Geyrhalter
editor(s): Andrea Wagner
producer(s): Markus Glaser, Michael Kitzberger, Wolfgang Widerhofer, Nikolaus Geyrhalter
production company: Geyrhalter Filmproduktion

"Illuminating, occasionally wince-inducing documentary assembled with quietly competent professionalism." The Hollywood Reporter

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