Oswaldo Cruz

Oswaldo Cruz

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1973

Runtime

0h 14m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Oswaldo Cruz

Production Companies

MEC - Ministério da Educação e Cultura, Instituto Nacional de Cinema (INC), Departamento do Filme Cultural

Director

Jurandyr Passos Noronha

Description

The film documents the old Rio de Janeiro and its great focus of diseases. Stresses the decisive importance of Oswaldo Cruz who creates Experimental Medicine in Brazil, believing that without sanitation, no undertaking could succeed. Rodrigues Alves then started the urbanization of Rio, against great interests.