The unwilling doctor (1971)

Movie
Original title	The doctor against his will
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Publishing year	1971
length	60 minutes
Rod
Director	Benno Besson (theater), Margot Thyrêt (television)
production	German television broadcasting
music	Wolfgang Pietsch
camera	Hans-Otto Reisener , Jürgen Stiel , Josef Kubitza , Habbo Lolling , Hans-Georg Henkel
cut	Erika Eichhorn
occupation
Rolf Ludwig : Sganarelle Carmen-Maja Antoni : Martine Klaus Mertens : Géronte Angelica Domröse : Lucinde Armin Mueller-Stahl : Léandre Hans-Joachim Hanisch : Valère Egon Geissler : Lucas Ursula Karusseit : Jacqueline Erich Brauer : Thibaut, farmer Dieter Monday : Perrin, farmer Harry Hindemith : Mr. Robert

The doctor against his will is the 1971 recording of the German television broadcast of a production by Benno Besson at the Volksbühne Berlin based on the play of the same name by the French poet Molière .

action

Since this is a theater production, see: The doctor against his will

Production and publication

The play was premiered on December 30, 1970 in the Volksbühne Berlin with a German translation by Benno Besson and Heiner Müller and was also recorded on television together with the following performance.

The broadcast in the 2nd program of the German TV radio took place on May 1, 1971 in color.

criticism

In the Neue Zeit , Helmut Ullrich remarked:

“There is really nothing more than an insignificant farce, even if it certainly contains a lot of accurate satire on the medical profession from then and in general. But Besson turns it into a triumphant return of the Hanswurst to the theater. With a great understanding of art, he engages in fluff; With artistic energy, which, as always with him, is ingenuity plus precision, he puts great nonsense on the scene. O beautiful proximity of the theater to clowning, o great art of nonsense "

In the Critique of New Germany , Rainer Kerndl wrote:

“This is great fun, made with the means and methods of a theater practice, in which joy in playing, imagination and perfection together with the ability to take pleasure very seriously - that is to say: to take it with conscientiousness, to be brought to a productive denominator. So the pre-New Year's Eve joke from the 'doctor against his will' will probably not only warm people up on rough winter evenings. "

Web links

• The doctor in spite of himself in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The unwilling doctor at filmportal.de
• Reluctant doctor in the online dictionary of GDR television

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of January 5, 1971, p. 6
2. ↑ Neue Zeit of January 5, 1971, p. 4
3. ↑ Neues Deutschland, January 7, 1971, p. 5