In 1860 Paris, chemist Louis Pasteur is considered a quack within the medical community for advocating that doctors and surgeons wash their hands and boil their instruments to destroy microbes that can kill their patients. He came across this belief when discovering microscopic organisms in sour wine, the organisms which could be killed if heated sufficiently. The belief among the scientific community at large is that the organisms are the result of disease and not the cause. (Description by IMDB)

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Runtime: 1 hr, 30 min

Release: 1936

Cast: Paul Muni, Josephine Hutchinson, Anita Louise

Director: William Dieterle

Writer: Sheridan Gibney, Pierre Collings, Edward Chodorov