Oswaldo Cruz
MovieTitle | Oswaldo Cruz |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Jan 1, 1973 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Jurandyr Passos Noronha |
Production country | Brazil |
Production companies | MEC - Ministério da Educação e Cultura, Instituto Nacional de Cinema (INC), Departamento do Filme Cultural |
Run time | 14 min. |
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.