Thalidomide film premiere revives compensation fight - The Independent 8th November 2007

Germany's pharmaceutical industry spent more than a year trying to ban the film, but last night a moving, controversial and widely acclaimed television drama about the tragedy suffered by thousands of children crippled by the drug thalidomide was finally broadcast to an audience of millions. The two-part drama – entitled A Single Pill and shown at prime time – amounts to a savage indictment of Grünenthal in Aachen which first manufactured thalidomide, which was known in Germany as Contergan, in 1957.

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