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trustWHO (2018)
Is the WHO sick? The filmmaker and mother Lilian Franck reveals clandestine influences by the tobacco, pharmaceutical and nuclear industries on the organization. She shows a frightening portrayal of our present society, in which governmental politics is becoming obsolete.
"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane." - Martin Luther King
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Is the WHO sick? The filmmaker and mother Lilian Franck reveals clandestine influences by the tobacco, pharmaceutical and nuclear industries on the organization. She shows a frightening portrayal of our present society, in which governmental politics is becoming obsolete. "Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane." - Martin Luther King
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Genre:Documentary
Written By:Robert Cibis, Lilian Franck, Anja Neraal
In Theaters:3/21/2018
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Runtime:85 minutes
Studio:Golden Girls Filmproduktion, OVALmedia, ZDF, ORF, ARTE
Cast
Lilian Franck
Director
Lilian Franck
Self
John Peterson Myers
Self
Robert Parsons
Self - Journalist
Dr Wolfgang Wodarg
Self - Former Delegate to the European Council
Margaret Chan
Self - Director General of W.H.O.
Thomas Zeltner
Self - WHO Special Envoy
Douglas Bettcher
Self - W.H.O. Director of Non-communicable diseases Dept.
Vera da Costa e Silva
Self - Head of W.H.O. Framework Convention of Tobacco Control
Gregory Hartl
Self
German Velasquez
Self - Former WHO Director of Public Health Dept.
Marie-Paule Kieny
Self
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