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Master Over Life and Death

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Original title

Herr über Leben und Tod

Year

1955

Running time

87 min.

Country

Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Director

Victor Vicas

Screenwriter

Frédéric Grendel, Horst Hächler, Victor Vicas. Novel: Carl Zuckmayer

Cast

Music

Hans-Martin Majewski

Cinematography

Göran Strindberg (B&W)

Producer

Interwest

Genre

Drama. Romance | Disease/illness

Synopsis

Barbara is married to Georg Bertram, a professor of medicine who once saved her father's life. Things go awry for the couple when she gives birth to a mentally defective child. For Georg, coldly clinical, euthanizing the infant is the only way out. He is about to commit the irreparable when Barbara manages to interrupt his fatal act. By mutual agreement, husband and wife decide that Barbara will go to Saint-Guénolé in Brittany, where she and their son will be cared for by Louise Kerbrec, Georg's former nurse, in the hypothetical hope that the boy's condition will improve. What they do not know yet is that Barbara will meet there another doctor, Daniel Karentis, much more sympathetic than Georg and also much handsomer.

Awards: 1954: German Film Awards: Best Cinematography

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Master Over Life and Death

1955

Victor Vicas