Doctor glass
Movie | |
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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 |
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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 | |
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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
- ↑ a b Source: Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 41/1969, pp. 44 to 46
- ↑ Lexicon of international films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 686