‘Elizabeth’ Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur To Direct ‘Foreign Bodies’ About Vaccine Pioneer Waldemar Haffkine — Cannes Market

‘Elizabeth’ Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur To Direct ‘Foreign Bodies’ About Vaccine Pioneer Waldemar Haffkine — Cannes Market

EXCLUSIVE: BAFTA-winning Indian filmmaker Shekhar Kapur (Elizabeth) is set to direct Foreign Bodies, a historical drama biopic about vaccine pioneer and bacteriologist Waldemar Haffkine. Haffkine, little known to the general public, was the Ukrainian-Jewish scientist whose work on cholera and plague vaccines in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries helped save millions of lives. The British Raj […]

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