Desc: Ignaz Semmelweis - Arzt der Frauen: Directed by Michael Verhoeven. With Heiner Lauterbach, Friedrich von Thun, Robert Meyer, Franz Stoss. Vienna 1847: numerous women die of puerperal fever. The Hungarian gynecologist Ignaz Semmelweis finally makes an epoch-making discovery; the treating doctors bring death to the pregnant woman through poor hygiene.