Master of Life and Death
{{short description|1955 film}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Master of Life and Death
| image =File:Master of Life and Death.jpg
| caption =
| director = Victor Vicas
| producer = Wenzel Lüdecke
|based_on = Master of Life and Death by Carl Zuckmayer
| writer = Frédéric Grendel
Horst Hächler
Victor Vicas
| narrator =
| starring = Maria Schell
Ivan Desny
Wilhelm Borchert
| music = Hans-Martin Majewski
| cinematography = Göran Strindberg
| editing = Ira Oberberg
| studio =Interwest
| distributor =Gloria Film
| released = {{Film date|1955|01|07|df=yes}}
| runtime = 87 minutes
| country = West Germany
| language = German
| budget =
| gross =
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Master of Life and Death (German: Herr über Leben und Tod) is a 1955 West German drama film directed by Victor Vicas and starring Maria Schell, Ivan Desny and Wilhelm Borchert.Bock & Bergfelder p.84 It was shot at the Spandau Studios in West Berlin and on location around the city and in Brittany. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hans Ledersteger and Ernst Richter. It is based on the 1938 novel of the same title by Carl Zuckmayer.Goble p.796
Synopsis
Barbara is married to the distinguished professor of medicine Georg Bertram who once saved her father's life. When they have a mentally handicapped child together his clinical coldness comes to the fore and he wants to commit euthanasia on the child. She stops him and takes the child away to Brittany in the hope that a change of location and nursing will help them to improve. While there she encounters a much more sympathetic doctor.
Cast
- Maria Schell as Barbara Bertram, geb. Hansen
- Ivan Desny as Dr. Daniel Karentis
- Wilhelm Borchert as Professor Georg Bertram
- Olga Limburg as Anna Bertram
- Walter Bluhm as Werner Hansen
- Fritz Tillmann as Dr. Peter
- Reinhold Bernt as Bahnwärter
- Harry Giese as Professor Reichert
- Héléna Manson as Louise Kerbrec
- Daniel Mendaille as Monsieur Kerbrec
References
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Bibliography
- Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
External links
- {{IMDb title|0047080}}
Category:1950s German-language films
Category:Films directed by Victor Vicas
Category:Films shot at Spandau Studios
Category:Films set in Brittany
Category:Films based on German novels
Category:Films scored by Hans-Martin Majewski
Category:Films based on works by Carl Zuckmayer
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