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21st International Documentary Market Amsterdam
Catalogue No.
69
Science / Technology | Investigative
The Experiments Dokument inifrån: Experimenten Bosse Lindquist Sweden, 2016 color, HDcam, 175’ Original Language: Swedish Subtitles: English http://
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This documentary series investigates the Italian surgeon Paolo Macchiarini’s claims to have invented a groundbreaking method to create new organs. His method, using plastic tracheas soaked with stemcells, has been used on patients in USA, Russia, Sweden and Great Britain. The track record of his plastic organs is not very good though. Almost all patients are dead. The series provides an in-depth story of what actually took place. Is Macchiarini a genius, or a fraud? The impact of this series was enormous, with repercussions in Sweden as well as internationally. After the broadcast Macchiarini was eventually fired from Karolinska Institutet.
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Investigating the Italian star surgeon Paolo Macchiarini’s claims to have invented a ground-breaking method to create new organs, this documentary series hit like a bomb when aired in Sweden. 142