Une histoire de l'if Série-Collection : Des plantes et des hommes : une histoire des médicaments
Sylvain Roumette
1994 - 26 min - Betacam SP - Couleur - France
The yew is in every way surprising : a plastic tree that can be clipped in the most fantastic ways (hedges, benches, pyramids, mazes, windmills !), it is also a poisonous tree with certain substances, taxol and taxotere, that have a therapeutic effect on anticancerous cells...
This film traces, thanks to documents from archives and interviews with specialists, the history of this tree which once was revered with mistletoe by the Welsh, and whose pharmacological properties continue to be exploited successfully today, in particular for breast cancer which occurs in ever-increasing numbers.
Author-Director : Sylvain Roumette
Author : Jean-Marie Pelt, Alain de Sédouy
Delegate Producer : GMT productions
Broadcasting Co-producer : La Sept ARTE
Broadcasting Sale : TSR (Télévision suisse romande)
Contribution : Procirep, Ministère de la Recherche et de la Technologie, Ministère des Affaires étrangères, CNC
Distribution
Distributor : GMT productions
Distributor : Europimages
TV Rights : ARTE France Distribution
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