In the summer of 1928, the Scottish physician Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin by accident, but it would take two more decades and a world war before he and others succeeded in producing the antibiotic in such large quantities as to eradicate the epidemics of the time: typhus, syphilis, gangrene and tuberculosis.
| Production | Christian Berg | Producer |
| Writing | Wilfried Hauke | Writer |
| Sound | Moritz Pappert | Sound |
| Editing | Stephan Haase | Editor |
| Production | Hinnerk Jensen | Production Manager |
| Production | Katharina Krohmann | Production Director |
| Directing | Wilfried Hauke | Director |
| Production | Niko Günther | Production Director |
| Sound | George Kochbeck | Original Music Composer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Kati Ostermann | Costume Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Katrin Timpner | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Katrin Timpner | Hairstylist |
| Art | Jan Gebhardt | Production Design |
| Camera | Ralf Gemmecke | Director of Photography |
