While this depiction of Pasteur's life is over-simplified and fictionalized in parts, it still correctly paints him as a man too few of us credit today. I thought of him only as the man who taught us to boil stuff to kill bacteria--hence pasteurization. But he's also one of the founders of germ theory who develop vaccines and helped to get doctors to wash their hands.
A very strong film, showing one man willing to fight for the scientific truth no matter the cost to him professionally when the establishment refuses to believe him. Paul Muni won the Oscar for best actor for playing Pasteur. A year later he was nominated again for playing another famous Frenchman in the best picture winner The Life of Emile Zola.
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