(Cellules souches, le business de l'espoir)

Content: “A gift so precious, you can only offer it once” was the promise Cryosave, a Swiss multinational and global leader in stem cell banking, made to hundreds of thousands of new parents. For a few thousand francs, the company offered to store their newborn’s umbilical cord blood, an insurance policy against more than 80 illnesses, a safeguard for the future. But behind the brochures lay marketing schemes, hidden commissions, and a lack of oversight. In 2019, Cryosave abruptly went bankrupt. Without notifying its clients, the company quietly transferred over 300,000 stem cell samples to a lab in Poland. Since then, many parents have been fighting to recover what they believed was safely stored.

Countries:

Switzerland

Genres:

Documentary,

TV Movie

Runtime:

64 minutes

Year:

2025

Directors:

Valeria Mazzucchi

Production companies:

Point Prod,

RTS,

ARTE GEIE,

Arte GEIE - Strasbourg

Actors:

Self - client

Self - client of Cryo-Save

Self - Cryo-Save C.E.O.

Self - intendant for Frédéric Amar

Self - lawyer

Crews:

Director

Screenplay

Screenplay

Director

Producer