Female doctors (film)

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Movie
Original title doctors
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1984
length 103 minutes
Rod
Director Horst Seemann
script Horst Seemann
production DEFA , KAG Babelsberg
music Horst Seemann
camera Otto Hanisch
cut Bärbel Bauersfeld
occupation

Doctors is a German feature film from the DEFA studio for feature films by Horst Seemann from 1984 based on the stage play of the same name by Rolf Hochhuth from 1980.

action

The doctor, who works in the research department of a large pharmaceutical company , Dr. Lydia Kowalenko, receives from her boss Dr. Böblinger to cover up the order that a preparation produced there was delivered in an incorrect condition. But she refuses and then loses her job. Her daughter, the doctor Dr. Katia Michelsberg, who without scruples conducts research experiments in a hospital on people who are on the operating table with her for other reasons .

Thomas is the son of Katia Michelsberg and the general practitioner Dr. Werner Michelsberg, who are divorced, and is preparing to study medicine. While riding his moped , he finds an injured young woman who has been thrown from her horse. With the help of his father, she is taken to his mother's clinic and operated on by his mother. During the procedure, a piece of tissue is removed from the patient's lungs for experiments. It is suspected that this caused her death, which is why charges and a trial are threatened, which Katia's boss and lover can prevent.

Thomas (Tom) is doing an internship in the pathology department of the hospital where his mother works. In this context he finds out about the unclean methods that are practiced here and he also discovers the body of the dead rider. Since he was present when she was admitted, he knows that she was not in a life-threatening condition and asks his mother critical questions.

Lydia Kowalenko gets a new job in a pharmaceutical company due to relationships. Now it is more willing to compromise and adapts to the usual business practices. During a medical congress in Stockholm , everyone involved and Dr. Böblinger reveals to Lydia that he is her boss again, because his company has bought her current employer.

Thomas Michelsberg goes on a bus trip to Austria with his friends. As a result of an accident, the injured bus occupants are taken to a hospital. Tom dies in the clinic, possibly after the transfusion of a new, as yet unsatisfactorily tested preparation for artificial blood.

production

Doctors were of the artistic group "Babelsberg" with support from the West Berlin Manfred Durniok Film Production , Sveriges Television and film monopoly Zurich on ORWO turned -Color and had its world premiere on 19 January 1984 at the Berlin cinema cosmos . From May 25, 1984 the film was shown in cinemas in the Federal Republic of Germany and on March 28, 1986 it was shown on the first program of East German television.

The scenario also came from Horst Seemann and the dramaturgy was in the hands of Peter Wuss .

criticism

For Helmut Ullrich von der Neue Zeit , the director and screenwriter Horst Seemann was primarily concerned with preparing the stage template for the film. In doing so, however, he has also largely removed what Hochhuth's piece contains in terms of dramatic pathos, sentimentality and even elements of colportage. Furthermore, he has also changed some of the people and processes, with the figure of Tom being particularly emphasized.

Günter Sobe asks in the Berliner Zeitung when a career-related and success-oriented approach gets in the way of being human. The film is an offer that should not simply be overlooked, because you can rely on the dialogues of a drama built according to traditionally tried and tested dramaturgical rules, formulated more pointedly, more thoroughly and broadly than is usually the case in scripts.

In New Germany , Horst Knietzsch finds that the director and the actors avoid rough outlines in this film, they strive for truthfulness in the artistic details and this gives him coherence and persuasiveness.

The lexicon of international film says that the melodramatic film, which was created in German-German cooperation, was all too stereotypical for the German audience, in its colossal and at the same time enjoyable portrayal of capitalist decadence. For GDR moviegoers it was certainly a splendid show and show piece with a western flair.

Awards

  • 1984: Doctors received the state grade "valuable"
  • 1985: Critics' award from the Association of Film and TV Creators in the GDR to Inge Keller for her artistic achievement in women doctors
  • 1985: Critics' Award of the Association of Film and TV Makers of the GDR: Best DEFA Feature Film 1984

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neue Zeit of November 16, 1978, p. 4
  2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of January 21, 1984, p. 7
  3. ↑ Neues Deutschland from January 20, 1984, p. 4
  4. ↑ Doctors in the Lexicon of International Films Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used
  5. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of December 22, 1984, p. 7
  6. ↑ Neues Deutschland, April 12, 1985, p. 4