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Redemption Impossible

"40 chimps, 4 women and the big challenges of our civilization: guilt, responsibility and redemption"

2013-03-21 en 90m
Picture a life in a box measuring just six square metres, without daylight or contact to fellow members of the species. For years forty chimpanzees from Sierra Leone were used illegally in experiments aimed at developing Aids and hepatitis vaccines. After fifteen years, the Austrian pharmaceutical company Immuno abandon these tests as inconclusive, and a resocialisation project for these infected primates begins.

Writer

Claus Strigel

Director

Claus Strigel

experiment rehabilitation chimp

Status

Released

Countries

  • Germany
  • Austria

Companies

  • WDR

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