Das Wunder von Kapstadt (2022)

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.

Released Oct. 4, 2022 105 min None+

Genres: Drama, History, TV Movie

Keywords: tmdb.based-on-true-story, tmdb.heart-transplant, imdb.society, mdblist.imdb-tv-movie

Production Companies: ORF, Producers at Work, MIA Film, ARD, Degeto Film

Country: Germany
Production Country: Germany
Languages: German