What the nurse Stephan L. accused is outrageous: the killing of 29 patients of the hospital Sonthofen. Time and again the public is shaken by it that nurses soar to death angels. No one suspected the perpetrators where it comes to medical treatment, care and healing. Because it is considered unthinkable, nurses were always ready to kill over a long period of time. Early warnings were almost ignored in all cases.
Stephan L. Sonthofen in the hospital was able to mix his deadly Cocktais unnoticed because there was no control, because the doctors who did not felt the need to order in case of doubt, a review or autopsy. Always have a routine and natural death was certified.
In the movie "The Todessengel" speaks for the first time on television the ex-nurse sentenced Wolfgang L., in 1990, ten people killed, about his motives. The documentation shows that the perpetrators are usually nonassertive people fighting especially around the recognition of others. Negligence of hospitals, sloppy or missing autopsies and a growing ignorance in society, they make the killing easily. The case of Stephen L. will not be the last.
Die Todesengel - Backstage
Written and directed by: | Matthias Franck |
Director of photography: | Mathias Schöningh |
Assistant camera: | Marc Lorat |
Film editor: | Dennis Karsten |
Executive producer: | Jörg Kunkel |
Producer: | Thomas Schuhbauer |
Head of production: | Ulrich Lenze |
Program manager: | Werner Grave, NDR, Ulrike Leutheusser, BR |
To be aired on: | ARD, February 9, 2006, 11:45 pm |
