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.
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
