Doctor glass

Movie
German title	Doctor glass
Original title	Dr. Glass
Country of production	Denmark
original language	Danish
Publishing year	1968
length	82 minutes
Age rating	FSK 18
Rod
Director	May butterfly
script	David Hughes May Butterfly
production	Joseph Hardy Benni Korzen Mogens Skot-Hansen
music	Peter Willemoes
camera	Rune Ericson
cut	Wic Kjellin
occupation
Per Oscarsson : Doctor Glas Lone Hertz : Helga Gregorius Ulf Palme : Pastor Gregorius Bente Dessau : Eva Martens Nils Eklund : Markel, journalist Lars Lunøe : Klas Recke, Helga's lover Bendt Rothe : Birck Helle Hertz : Anita Ingolf David : father of Dr. Glass Jonas Bergström : friend of Dr. Glass

Doktor Glas (Original title: Dr. Glas ) is a Danish feature film by the Swedish director Mai Zetterling from 1968. She wrote the screenplay herself together with David Hughes . It is based on the novel of the same name by the Swedish writer Hjalmar Söderberg . The leading roles are cast with Per Oscarsson , Lone Hertz and Ulf Palme . The film was first shown in cinemas in the country of production on June 12, 1968, and in the Federal Republic of Germany on September 24, 1968.

action

Elegant retrospect of a doctor: Dr. Glas, wandering around in modern Stockholm with premonitions of death, remembers how he once committed the perfect murder in his youth: He, who found it an abomination to perform abortions, who in his practice always speaks of it being his job as a doctor To preserve life, he is soon ready to promote the pastor of the village from life to death when the pastor's wife approaches him for help. The woman says she can't stand her husband, and to help her and because he loves her, Dr. Glass the theologian. Only the reward of his wishes is withheld from him; because the wife has unfortunately already consoled herself with someone else.

criticism

The Protestant film observer draws the following conclusion: “The film [...] deals with killing and with sexual ideal images in a sensitive sense of style. Certainly the opposite of a Christian film, but a work of art that can stimulate discussion. From 18. "An ambiguous opinion from the strip on the other hand has lexicon of international film ". Based on a play action discussed [...] May Zetterling on committed, polemical part and provocative, the ethical implications of euthanasia "The Film Review Board Wiesbaden granted the strip the predicate "valuable".

Web link

• Doktor Glas in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Source: Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 41/1969, pp. 44 to 46
2. ↑ Lexicon of international films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 686