Auf Messers Schneide - Eine Geschichte der Chirurgie

The documentary tells the exciting story of the beginnings of surgery through to its specialization - a fascinating journey through time from the Stone Age with the first skull openings through antiquity and the early modern era to the first heart operation. The film was shot at the most important locations in the history of surgery - including Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Great Britain, Hungary and the USA. The film contains fascinating and partly unpublished archive material.

• Nina KoshoferDirector
• Christian TwenteDirector

• Rachel KalisherSelf, bioarchaeologist
• Zsolt BereczkiSelf
• Ira RutkowSelf
• Marion RusingerSelf
• Jean-Noël Fabiani-SalmonSelf
• Susan VassalloSelf
• Christiane DrumlSelf
• Thomas SchnalkeSelf
• Levente SamuSelf
• Fabio ZampieriSelf, Associate Professor of History of Medicine, Università di Padova
• Sally FramptonSelf, author of 'Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy'
• Herwig CzechSelf