January 31th 2001 at 7 p.a.ARTE shows the new documentary "Alzheimer", a co-production between ARTE and MDR.
There are fifteen million people suffering from "Alzheimer" desease, and they are getting more. Still today, one doesn't know much more about the desease as the neurologist Alois Alzheimer did last century. The two filmmakers are showing, how an Alzheimer patient and his wife cope the situation. Famous Alzheimer patients as there were Herbert Wehner or Rita Hayworth are shown aswell.