Axel Munthe - The Doctor of San Michele

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Movie
Original title Axel Munthe - The Doctor of San Michele
Axel Munthe The doctor from San Michele Logo 001.svg
Country of production Federal Republic of Germany
Italy
France
original language German
Publishing year 1962
length 125 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Rudolf Jugert
Giorgio Capitani
Georg Marischka
script Hans Jacoby
Harald G. Petersson
production Artur Brauner
music Mario Nascimbene
camera Richard fear
cut Jutta Hering
occupation

Axel Munthe - The Doctor of San Michele is a German-Italian-French feature film from 1962 by Rudolf Jugert . The plot is based on Axel Munthes autobiographical novel The Book of San Michele . OW Fischer played the title role .

action

The young Swedish country doctor Axel Munthe refrains from taking over a practice intended for him in his hometown and does not marry his childhood sweetheart Ebba, as planned. Instead, he goes to Paris , where he joins the famous researcher Louis Pasteur . He is finally introduced to Paris society by a countess. Munthe quickly became the darling of the upper class , the fashion doctor of the wealthy and the nobility.

But when he heard that a cholera epidemic had broken out in Naples one day , he left everything behind and traveled to southern Italy to help where he could. Munthe then went to Rome , where he achieved fame and fortune. In the end he even became the personal physician of the Swedish king. At the height of fame and recognition, Axel Munthe decides to withdraw from the public eye and settles on Capri . There he wrote his memoirs as he became blind.

Production notes

The film was shot on location in Capri, Rome and Naples from April 2 to June 8, 1962. Although co-director Georg Marischka directed 46 days before he was replaced by his colleague Jugert, he was not given any names in the opening credits.

Willi Schatz and Werner Achmann designed the film structures, Claudia Herberg the costumes. Ernst Steinlechner and Peter Hahne were the production managers.

The premiere was on September 28, 1962 in Augsburg . In the two co-producing countries, Italy and France, the film was shown in 1963 under the titles La storia di San Michele and Le Livre de San Michele .

Reviews

  • Der Spiegel ruled in 1962: "Efforts by German cinema manufacturers to exploit the Swedish fashion doctor's fantasy-laden memory book for an internationally competitive film [...] led to an extraordinarily boring play of light of a provincial style."
  • The Lexicon of the International Film wrote: "Episodes from the life of the Swedish doctor Axel Munthe [...] in a mixture of closeness to reality, conventional cinema invention and soulful embellishment."
  • The Protestant film observer drew the following conclusion: “Incidents from the life of the Swedish fashion doctor Axel Munthe. Vain self-reflection, contempt for people and flight from the world are exaggerations of Munthes character traits laid out in the book. Wearable for adults, but without recommendation. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The main director was Jugert. Capitani staged the Italian version
  2. Marischka, who remained anonymous, only shot part of the film at the beginning of the shooting
  3. Axel Munthe - The doctor from San Michele . In: Der Spiegel , 43/1962, October 24, 1962, p. 111f.
  4. Klaus Brüne (Red.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 1, Reinbek near Hamburg 1987, p. 245.
  5. Published by the Evangelical Press Association in Munich, Review No. 574/1962