The doctor from St. Pauli
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The doctor from St. Pauli |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | Rolf Olsen |
| script | Rolf Olsen |
| production | Heinz Willeg |
| music | Erwin Halletz |
| camera | Franz Xaver Lederle |
| cut | Renate Willeg |
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The Doctor of St. Pauli is a German crime film directed by Rolf Olsen in 1968 .
action
Poor doctor Dr. Jan Diffring is the good soul of Hamburg-St. Pauli , helps out with friend Willi Nippes' little boxing matches and saves the young prostitute Ingrid Castell when she is beaten up on the street. While he is loved by his patients, contact with his own brother Klaus is broken. He and Jan have not spoken to each other for years, as the gynecologist Klaus looks down on his brother's work. The young sailor Hein Jungermann arrives in Hamburg. He expects his long-time lover Margot Rau to pick him up; but she has moved without leaving a contact address. Instead, the new tenant of Margot's apartment, Karin, is waiting for Hein. In his search for Margot, Hein also contacts Jan; but he doesn't know where Margot is either.
Klaus is a gynecologist and also performs illegal abortions in his clinic. In addition, as a supplier of new girls, he is involved on a large scale in sex parties organized by the organizer Siegfried Gersum. As a rule, he selects attractive women who have come to him for an abortion and are therefore bound to him. Industrialist Elisabeth Langhoff also visits one of these celebrations, as Klaus has promised her that he will discuss more details about abortion there. When Elisabeth, who quickly realizes which party she has come to, wants to go, she is given a drug cocktail that makes her mindless. A little later she sleeps with Klaus in front of the party guests. None of those present knew that Margot, who was also invited, was secretly taking photos at the party. A few days later, Margot appears at Elisabeth's home and shows her compromising pictures of the celebration. She asked for a large sum in return for delivering the negatives of the pictures. Margot and her partner Helmut Weiher want to blackmail all party guests.
Hein recognizes Margot in her car. He finds the wagon keeper Helmut, who tells him Margot's whereabouts. Margot rejects Hein, saying that she no longer felt like waiting for him all the time, but prefers to earn her money with paid sex. Hein leaves the apartment angry. Meanwhile, Elisabeth seeks out Klaus, who reacts immediately to the news of the blackmail. With Siegfried he pays Margot a visit, ties and gags her and searches the apartment for the negatives. He doesn't find her. Margot, in turn, suffocates on the gag. A short time later, her body is fished out of the harbor. Now Helmut Margot takes over and seeks out Klaus. He wants 30,000 marks for leaving the negatives, which makes Klaus so nervous that he makes a mistake during an abortion and the young woman dies on the way to the hospital. Klaus puts the killer Harry on Helmut, who stabs him at the moment when Hein is talking to him. The called police sees Hein fleeing from the crime scene and now suspects him to be the perpetrator. Hein goes into hiding with Jan. He is now starting to look for the real culprit on his own initiative. Willi Nippes finds out that the dead were in connection with a gynecologist on the Jungfernsteg. In the end, only Klaus remains as a suspect. Karin offers herself as a decoy and ends up at one of Siegfried and Klaus' sex parties. Jan gets her out and saves Elisabeth Langhoff, who was held prisoner at the party.
Ingrid Castell, who once helped Jan, happened to witness how Harry was commissioned to grind Jan, as Klaus and Siegfried suspect that he could get hold of the negatives. She warns him, but cannot prevent Harry and his people from taking control of Jan, Karin and Hein and taking them to a junkyard. Another prostitute has seen everything and rushes to Willi Nippes, who gathers the men from St. Pauli and hurries to the junkyard. The police have since learned that something has happened to Jan and go to the junkyard. Here Jan is tortured to reveal the hiding place of the negatives. Meanwhile, the police turn up at Klaus', who panicked and flees to Siegfried with his assistant Gerda. They find him packing and Klaus realizes that Siegfried wants to flee with Gerda and leave him to his fate. Klaus shoots Gerda and Siegfried and takes a packed suitcase. He goes to Harry and the hostages in the junkyard. The situation comes to a head when the men from St. Pauli appear under the direction of Willi Nippes. They end up blocking the escape routes from the junkyard, and Harry and his cronies are caught or shot by the arriving police. Jan, Karin and Hein were able to free themselves. Eventually Jan confronts his brother Klaus. Klaus wants to flee with the money. When he realizes that Jan won't let him go, he shoots himself in front of his eyes.
A few days later, calm has returned. Hein and Karin want to get married, Willi wants to settle down and Jan goes about his work as a doctor in St. Pauli as always.
production
The doctor from St. Pauli was filmed mainly in Hamburg . The costumes were created by Hildegard Bürger , the film construction came from Günter Kob . The film premiered on September 20, 1968 at the Lufi in Nuremberg , and was released on DVD in February 2006.
criticism
The film-dienst found that the film was "full of clichés and unbelievable" and that it was "staged in a simple way and with a false morality." “Great neighborhood color, but flat story,” summarized Cinema . The Protestant film observer drew the following conclusion: “The interesting constellation of two different brothers [...] unfortunately got stuck in the good beginnings and suffocated in sheer clichés, shallow superficialities and implausible course of action. The pastor represented by Dieter Borsche is listed in full in the annex. "
Award
The doctor from St. Pauli won the Golden Screen for three million cinema-goers in 1969 .
Web links
- The doctor from St. Pauli in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The doctor from St. Pauli at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The doctor of St. Pauli. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 12, 2015 .
- ↑ See cinema.de. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 461/1963
- ↑ See filmecho.de. Retrieved November 12, 2015.