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.
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Sonja Gerhardt as Dr. Lisa Scheel
Alexander Scheer as Dr. Christiaan Barnard
Loyiso Macdonald as Hamilton Naki
Clara Wolfram as McCarthy
Vikash Mathura as Vijay
Arnd Klawitter as De Groen
Fritz Karl as Prof. Kohlfeld
Thimo Meitner as Rupert von Aigner
Michaela Winterstein as Karin Scheel
Raphael Keric as Niekerk
Peter Miklusz as Moderator
Johannes Krimmel as Van der Straaten
Marlen Ulonska as Ann Washkansky
Damian Thüne as Martinek
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