The Great Temptation (1952)

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Movie
Original title The great temptation
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1952
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Rolf Hansen
script Kurt Heuser
production Rotary-Film, Munich
( CW Tetting )
music Mark Lothar
camera Friedl Behn-Grund
Franz Weihmayr
cut Anna Höllering
occupation

The great temptation is a German feature film from 1952 directed by Rolf Hansen . Dieter Borsche and Ruth Leuwerik are cast in the leading roles. The film is based on Hans Kades ' doctor novel The Successful .

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Richard Gerbrand cannot resist the temptation to accept the position of senior physician in a hospital, which the District Administrator Rochwald has given him. Gerbrand had saved the man's life in the field hospital with an operation during World War II . He does not mention that he is still three semesters short of the state examination as a doctor. Since he was a late returnee , he didn't have the money to finish his studies straight away. Only student Hilde, fiancée of his brother, who fought in the east and has not yet returned, knows how things are with him. He justifies himself to her that he doesn't need any papers, he has protection now, for the first time in his life.

In his new position as senior physician, Gerbrand is loved by patients and respected and respected by his colleagues. His boss, Medical Councilor Dr. Bosch, has full confidence in his abilities as a doctor and is happy to have him. When he succeeds in the Trendelenburg operation on the 16-year-old patient Hannelore Lechrainer , which is only rarely performed and requires great skill, this further increases respect for Gerbrand. Gerbrand's position means that he also makes the acquaintance of Sylva Witt, the daughter of a financially influential patient. She begins to be seriously interested in him, also because he is a man who does not unconditionally agree with her in everything. Since she is extremely attractive, Richard does not leave her indifferent either.

The tide turns when Dr. One day Riebold Gerbrand asks for an expert report that he needs for the medical association . Riebold, a very idealistic doctor, needs help because he has to defend himself against unscrupulous profiteers. The colleague doesn't understand why Gerbrand doesn't want to help him. Little does he know that Gebrand would get himself into trouble as he is still missing his final obstetrics exam . During this difficult time Richard learns from Hilde that his brother, Hilde's fiancé, died in the east. At the same time, he has the opportunity to shortly acquire the last missing certificate for the state examination.

When District Administrator Rochwald Gerbrand held a party in his honor, he publicly sided with the beleaguered doctor Riebold and confessed how things really were with him. The reactions of those present to his confession vary. In a later court hearing, many people stand up for Gerbrand and the judge issues a judgment that everyone can live with. Richard now also knows who is the right woman at his side for him - the woman who was always there for him when it mattered - Hilde.

Production and Background

The film is based on the novel The Successful - Novel of a Surgeon by Hans Kades, which was initially published as a serial in the Neue Illustrierte before it was published by Kurt Desch in 1953 .

It is a Rotary film distributed by Deutsche London-Film. The filming took place in the Bavaria Film Studios Geiselgasteig . The exterior shots were taken in Munich, Kaltenbrunn and Gmund am Tegernsee . The buildings were created by Franz Bi and Botho Höfer , producer CW Tetting also took over the production management.

The film started in Germany on December 18, 1952 in the Luxor in Karlsruhe . The film first ran on television on June 9, 1963 in the ARD program .

The great temptation was Claus Biederstaedt's debut film. For his first film role, he was awarded the Gold Film Ribbon as the best young actor .

The film had to do with reality at the time in that it tried to depict the typical situation of late returnees. When they returned, most of their jobs no longer existed and most of their colleagues were considered lost. Others had fled from the east and had no work other than their belongings. But since you needed money to feed yourself, you did everything that was available and what you thought you could. Very few were impostors, survivors were more likely. Even doctors were not immune to such situations.

criticism

Claudius Seidl found: “The previous film by Rolf Hansen Dr. Holl was such a huge success that Hansen and Borsche shot the next doctor's film together using a similar pattern: The great temptation . Again, Hansen staged in the elegant, slightly pompous Ufa style, with home-style interiors and beautiful, home-style people. Borsche again played a doctor who stands between two women. "

“A medical student worked as an assistant doctor during the Second World War, after the end of the war he was pushed into the position of senior surgeon by a patron, half reluctantly, and filled the position conscientiously until he - troubled by medical and private problems - voluntarily surrendered to justice and find mild judges. A typical German doctor film of the 50s: larmoyant, oozing nobility and far from reality. "

- Lexicon of international film

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  1. ↑ Dr. Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , pp. 259 f.
  2. ↑ LUXOR, cinema on Kaiserstraße
  3. ↑ a b cf. Claudius Seidl: The German Film of the Fifties , Heyne Filmbibliothek No. 32/100, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, 1987, p. 110
  4. ↑ The great temptation. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used