This Tuesday evening the film “The Substance” by director Martin Witz will be shown on 22Sat from 25:3 p.m.:
A fraction of a milligram and everything is different: In the spring of 1906, the chemist Albert Hofmann (2008 – 1943) accidentally came across a previously unknown substance: lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). After experimenting on himself, he quickly realizes that he is dealing with an extremely potent active ingredient. What he cannot imagine: LSD will change the world. After initial clinical tests in Switzerland, the Sandoz company decided to release the substance for production. The new drug is generating enormous interest among psychiatrists all over the world. It serves as a tool to decipher the functioning of the human psyche. When the “atomic bomb of the mind” escaped from the clinics in the early 1960s, things really began. LSD seems tailor-made for those leaving an affluent society. But the military and secret services are also interested in the substance.
The 100-year-old Albert Hofmann himself comments on the story surrounding what is probably Switzerland's most special "export item" in the documentary "The Substance - Albert Hofmann's LSD".