The little doctor
| Television series | |
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| Original title | The little doctor |
| Country of production | BR Germany |
| original language | German |
| year | 1974 |
| length | 60 minutes |
| Episodes | 13 in 2 seasons |
| genre | Thriller |
| music | Graziano Mandozzi , Erich Ferstl |
| First broadcast | April 7, 1974 on ZDF |
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The little doctor was a German crime series of the ZDF in two seasons from 1974. The literary model of the series were short stories by Georges Simenon . The directors were Wolfgang Becker (1st season, 6 episodes) and Thomas Engel (2nd season, 7 episodes).
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The doctor and bachelor Dr. Jean Dollent lives with his housekeeper Marianne in the village of Marsilly in Charente-Maritime . The inconspicuous country doctor is also a master detective who is repeatedly asked to clarify a difficult case. Thanks to his knowledge of human nature and his deliberate approach, he is regularly more successful than the pros from the criminal investigation department.
Episodes
season 1
The first broadcast of the first season took place from April 7, 1974 to June 16, 1974.
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
Original title | First broadcast in Germany | Director | script | actor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | The arsenic castle | April 7, 1974 ( ZDF ) |
Wolfgang Becker | Franz Geiger | Peter Pasetti : Baron Olivier , Christine Buchegger : Irene , Maria Schell : Ernestine |
| 2 | 2 | Visit from Paris | April 21, 1974 ( ZDF ) |
Wolfgang Becker | Rudolf Nottebohm | Rakhchandeh Ettehad : Laure , Bruno Dietrich : Gilbert , Wolf Roth : Philippe |
| 3 | 3 | The emergency brake | May 5, 1974 ( ZDF ) |
Wolfgang Becker | Franz Geiger | Inken Sommer : Germaine , Siegfried Rauch : Leon , Roger Herbst : Charles , Karl Hanft : Bauer Simon |
| 4th | 4th | Murder in the bog | May 19, 1974 ( ZDF ) |
Wolfgang Becker | Franz Geiger | Herbert Fleischmann : Roger Borchain , Ursula Lingen : Nicole Pilard , Alwy Becker : Marthe Borchain , Karl Hanft : Bauer Simon |
| 5 | 5 | The Red | June 2, 1974 ( ZDF ) |
Wolfgang Becker | Alf Tamin | Karl Renar : Jacques Frerette , Evelyn Opela : Vamp , Peter Bollag : Didier Marmont |
| 6th | 6th | A dead person falls from the sky | June 16, 1974 ( ZDF ) |
Wolfgang Becker | Alf Tamin | Kurt Meisel : Baron Vauquelin-Radot , Arno Assmann : Dr. Crique , Sabine Sinjen : Marine / Denise |
season 2
The first broadcast of the second season took place from July 14, 1974 to October 6, 1974.
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
Original title | First broadcast in Germany | Director | script | actor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7th | 1 | The missing admiral | July 14, 1974 ( ZDF ) |
Thomas Engel | Fred Ignor | Willi Rose : Admiral , Friedrich G. Beckhaus : Jean , Edeltraut Elsner : Angèle |
| 8th | 2 | Too many doctors | July 28, 1974 ( ZDF ) |
Thomas Engel | Dieter Bochow | Dieter Borsche : Professor Gromaire , Sabine Glaser : Madeleine , Peter Fricke : Dr. Philippe Lourtie |
| 9 | 3 | The thief of thieves | August 11, 1974 ( ZDF ) |
Thomas Engel | Fred Ignor | Eva Kinsky : Alice , Walter Kohut : Dumont , Wolfried Lier : Calmet |
| 10 | 4th | A Dutchman in Paris | August 25, 1974 ( ZDF ) |
Thomas Engel | Thomas Engel, Stefan Gommermann | Gert Haucke : Kees van der Donck , Herbert Fux : Louis , Christine Diersch : Bijou |
| 11 | 5 | Voodoo or The Revenge of the Shamans | September 8, 1974 ( ZDF ) |
Thomas Engel | Sibylle Ruch , Alf Tamin | Karl Georg Saebisch : Marbe , Franz Schafheitlin : Duffe , Edith Heerdegen : Heloise |
| 12 | 6th | The girl in the sky blue | September 22, 1974 ( ZDF ) |
Thomas Engel | Plym Pahl | Jessica Dorn : Angelina , Doris Gallart : Madame La Roche , Hellmut Lange : Boucher |
| 13 | 7th | A remarkable niece | October 6, 1974 ( ZDF ) |
Thomas Engel | Vratislav Blažek | Eva Maria Meineke : Sister Jeanne , Harry Kalenberg : Factory Gallot , Ulli Kinalzik : Claude |
Literary template
The television series The Little Doctor is based on a series of short stories by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon , written in La Rochelle in 1938 and published in 1943 in the anthology Le petit docteur by Éditions Gallimard (see the list of works by Georges Simenon ). The main character of the country doctor Jean Dollent was from Simenon's family doctor Dr. Edouard de Béchevel inspired. According to Simenon's biographer Stanley G. Eskin, it is a typical armchair detective and descendant of Edgar Allan Poe's Auguste Dupin and Gaston Leroux 's roulette table, who is delighted by "his lively and mischievous demeanor and his carefree way of interfering in any investigation".
In part, Dollent also investigates in Paris , but without encountering Simenon's famous Commissioner Maigret . But he meets his assistant Lucas several times. For Georg Hensel , the little doctor was "a prologue to Maigret" in which the writer traces the past of his famous commissioner, "that moment when the doctor suddenly slips out of the larvae like a butterfly". He has the special ability to "peel out the simple human truth", which can also be found in the French commissioner. The German translations of the stories by Hansjürgen Wille and Barbara Klau have been published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch and by Diogenes Verlag . Schumm speaking books published readings of several short stories in the series by Edgar M. Böhlke in 1998 and 1999 .
History of origin
After the success of the crime series Der Kommissar , ZDF was planning another crime fiction format as early as 1969, for the lead role of which Heinz Rühmann was intended. However, he shied away from comparison with Erik Ode and developed his own concept of a more humorous series. The already completed scripts based on Simenons were rewritten and adapted to the advanced age of Rühmann. Rühmann's suggestions are also due to the expansion of some of the recurring minor characters in the village. When Rühmann finally canceled his participation, the main role was replaced with Peer Schmidt and the scripts were once again adapted to Simenon's original. The film was shot on original locations in western France around La Rochelle .
After six episodes there was a change in the entire production team. Instead of the FGR film and television production , the Bavaria Filmatelier now produced . The direction passed from Wolfgang Becker to Thomas Engel . Even the title melody, which originally came from Graziano Mandozzi , was newly composed by Erich Ferstl . While the first season was based faithfully on the books "by Georges Simenon", the series was now under the label "after Georges Simenon", which meant that the materials were partly fictitious.
reception
The contemporary criticism reacted mostly positively. The authentic French atmosphere and the performance of Peer Schmidt were praised. Heinz Rühmann praised: “Apart from Peer Schmidt, I don't know any colleague who would embody this role so ideally.” The declining quality of the second season was occasionally criticized. Martin Compart judged in his book Crime TV. Lexicon of crime series : "For the friends of classic detective stories, the well-made series is a joy."
In 2009, Polar Film released all 13 episodes of the series in a DVD box.
In 1986 , French television filmed Simenon's original again in a six-part television series. Alain Sachs played the little doctor . It was directed, among others, by Simenon's son Marc Simenon .
Web links
- The little doctor in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The little doctor in the Kabel 1 series dictionary
Individual evidence
- ↑ imdb.com: List of the episodes of the first season of The Little Doctor (English)
- ↑ imdb.com: List of the episodes of the second season of The Little Doctor (English)
- ^ Stanley G. Eskin: Simenon. A biography . Diogenes, Zurich 1989, ISBN 3-257-01830-4 , p. 247.
- ↑ Georg Hensel : Simenon and his commissioner Maigret . In: Claudia Schmölders , Christian Strich (Ed.): About Simenon . Diogenes, Zurich 1988, ISBN 3-257-20499-X , pp. 157-159.
- ↑ a b c Hans Schaffner: Booklet of the DVD box from Polar Film, 2009. ISBN 978-3-941028-41-8 .
- ↑ a b The little doctor in krimiserien.heimat.eu
- ↑ DVD: The Little Doctor on maigret.de.
- ↑ Martin Compart: Crime TV. Lexicon of crime series . Bertz + Fischer, Berlin 2000, p. 198.
- ↑ Le petit docteur in the Internet Movie Database (English).