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Hidden Heart

Das Herz des Anderen
Le coeur de l'autre

Switzerland / Germany / South Africa, January 2008
FILM, Documentary, 95 min.

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directed by
Cristina Karrer, Werner Swiss Schweizer
Written by
Cristina Karrer, Werner Swiss Schweizer
Status
In distribution

December 3rd, 1967 – a night that changed the world. The first human heart has been successfully transplanted in Cape Town, South Africa, a country where racial segregation was entrenched as nowhere else in the world. The heart surgeon Christian Barnard shot overnight to fame as no other doctor before or thereafter. However, Barnard didn't write the great success-story of the first heart transplantation alone. Post-Apartheid 2001: Newspapers suddenly claim that Hamilton Naki, the gardener, was equally part of the sensational operation. A story of glamour, injustice and uprising.

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World Premiere
January 2008
Original Version
English, Xhosa (english subtitles),  colour, 35mm, 95 min.
Production
Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG, Lichtblick Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH, Big World Cinema, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, SRG SSR, WDR - Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln, Bayerischer Rundfunk
Producer
Werner Swiss Schweizer
directed by
Cristina Karrer, Werner Swiss Schweizer
Written by
Cristina Karrer, Werner Swiss Schweizer
Cinemato­graphy
Michael Hammon
Editing
Patricia Wagner
Location Sound Mix
Jow Dlamini

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World Sales
WIDE

Worldwide Distribution

Germany
Real Fiction Filmverleih Distribution
Release date: 01.05.2008
Switzerland
Look Now! Distribution
Release date: tba

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