In the Heart of Aids' Battle

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Production
2010, France
Original language
French
Running time
01:20:00
Genre
documentary
Topic
medicine, research
Directed by
Laurent Firode
Written by
Laurent Firode et Laurence Beauvillard
Produced by
Cinétévé
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10.06.1980, Los Angeles: a first case of AIDS is described at the UCLA hospital by doctor Michaël Gottlieb.
10.06.2008, Stockholm: Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier receive the Nobel Prize in Medecine.
Between those two dates, the research was accomplished in a strained atmosphere, both symbolic of the scientific universe and particular by the stakes raised up by the discovery of the virus: financing, national scientific prestige…

This film is the opportunity to come back on 30 years of work, emotions, competition, mutual aid… The neophyte will discover the complex process which composes the everyday life of researchers in science.