The madman from the Pleicher Ring

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Movie
Original title The madman from the Pleicher Ring
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1986
length 62 minutes
Rod
Director Gerd Grasse
script Holmar Attila Mück
production Television of the GDR
camera Johanna Rothe
Frank Däumich
Karl Hey
Ralf Bartsch
cut Götz Filenius
occupation

Der Verrückte vom Pleicher-Ring is a television play on GDR television about Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen by Gerd Grasse from 1986 , based on Holmar Attila Mück 's radio play of the same name from 1980.

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The physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen cannot be stopped when he is busy with his experiments. He even locks himself in his Würzburg laboratory so that his wife Bertha does not disturb him with such trivialities as eating. During such experiments in November 1895 he discovered previously unknown rays, but for the time being he was unable to convince his colleagues, such as Professor Theodor Boverie, of the importance of this discovery. Undeterred, he continues to work with these rays, with which solid bodies can be made transparent, which he tries to prove in a lecture to many scientists. The student Paul Wendland is also enthusiastic about the lecture, although Professor Röntgen only recently let him fail the exam. The audience in the crowded auditorium was most impressed by the fact that Röntgen took an up-to-date photograph of an X-rayed hand.

Now the work with X-rays begins its triumphal march around the world, which only succeeds because Röntgen does not apply for a patent for the discovery . The benefits of these rays can be seen not only in many countries, but word of the successes spread in smaller towns too. The country doctor Dr. Weinheimer, who already attended the lecture in the lecture hall, has a little patient who cannot move his feet. An examination with the radiation reveals a tumor in the back of the child, which is the cause of the disability and which can therefore be removed. Robert is learning to walk again and now wants to get off the train alone at home in Husum.

Paul Wendland and his friend Friedrich von Schönfeld decide to work on the further development of the technology without the knowledge of the professor, i.e. secretly. But since they use his laboratory above his apartment, one day he finds out and confronts them. However, he is so enthusiastic about her researched results that he refrains from the intended sanctions and describes the work as an examination paper for Paul Wendland, which he also passed. Unfortunately, there are also many victims of the discovery, who are now called X-rays, too little is known about the danger. Friedrich von Schönfeld is one of them, while Paul Wendland is appointed as his assistant by Professor Röntgen.

production

Holmar Attila Mück's scenario for this television game was written on the basis of the biographical data of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen . The dramaturgy was in the hands of Karin Sedler . The first broadcast, the film made in color, took place on June 15, 1986 in the first program of the television of the GDR .

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