Les Médicamenteurs
MovieTitle | Les Médicamenteurs |
User score | 10 |
Release date | Jun 9, 2009 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Annick Redolfi , Stéphane Horel |
Production country | France |
Production companies | Beau Comme une Image, Public Sénat, France 5 |
Run time | 52 min. |
The leading consumers of medicines on the planet, are the French really sicker than the rest of humanity? Or are there other explanations for this bulimia? By mixing in-depth interviews and plasticine animations, this documentary takes viewers on a journey through the drug. Materialized by the setting of a town, Pharmacy, this walk goes through all the stages. From clinical trials to marketing, from therapeutic evaluation to price setting, from marketing hype to the side effects suffered - at the end of the chain - by patients, public authorities and the pharmaceutical industry are questioned without question. detours on their responsibilities.