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 stumbled upon a previously unknown substance: lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). After a self-experiment, he quickly realizes that he is dealing with an extremely potent active ingredient. What he cannot foresee: LSD will change the world. After the first clinical tests in Switzerland, the Sandoz company decides to release the substance for production. The novel drug is generating enormous interest among psychiatrists around the world. It serves as a tool to decipher how the human psyche works. When the “atomic bomb of the mind” escaped from the clinics in the early 1960s, things really got going. LSD seems to have been made for those dropping out of the affluent society. But the military and the secret services are also interested in the substance.
The 100-year-old Albert Hofmann himself comments on the story of Switzerland's most special “export item” in the documentary “The Substance - Albert Hofmanns LSD”.