Dr. Holl
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| Original title | Dr. Holl |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1951 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Rolf Hansen |
| script | Thea of Harbou |
| production | Friedrich A. Mainz for Fama, Hamburg |
| music | Mark Lothar |
| camera | Franz Weihmayr |
| cut | Anna Höllering |
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Dr. Holl is a German film drama from 1951. Directed by Rolf Hansen playing Dieter Borschemich and Maria Schell the leading roles.
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The industrialist Alberti is an extremely wealthy man, but worries about his daughter Angelika. The fragile, anemic young woman is terminally ill and often bedridden. Alberti would give all his fortune if he could only do something for Angelika. Father and daughter consulted many doctors in vain. The doctors gave it up long ago. But the word “give up” does not appear in Alberti's vocabulary. Only in the medical student Helga, who earns a living as a nurse, does he find an ally: Helga's fiancé Dr. Holl conducts intensive research into remedies.
Dr. Holl works day and night in the lab and seems well on the way to becoming a great medical professional. When he hears about the "hopeless" case of Angelika Alberti, he is ready to concentrate completely on it. Helga persuades Holl to move with him to Alberti'sche Castle to be close to the patient and to continue his research there. In the old Alberti both found a generous patron for all their expenses and the establishment of a laboratory. When Angelika, who knows nothing about Holl's relationship with Helga, falls in love with her future savior, Helga is ready to - temporarily - give him up for Angelika. Holl should marry Angelika so that she could die in the intoxication of happiness. Because despite all the optimism, Helga does not believe that this marriage will last.
Love grows out of Holl's pity, and soon the researcher even succeeds in finally developing the serum urgently needed to save Angelica. Angelica is now getting healthier every day. She plays the piano and sings, later, in the joyful anticipation of a common future, she has the furniture moved in order to transform two bedrooms - Holls and hers - into a common bedchamber. At first Helga reacts aghast. But she soon has to realize that with every day that Angelika becomes healthier, she threatens to lose her fiancé more and more. After all, Holl, who is considering making a run for it, slipped away from her, and Helga reluctantly releases him. Old Alberti is so enthusiastic about the latest developments - Angelica's recovery and the wedding with her dream man - that he digs deep into his pocket for Helga's renunciation and finances an entire clinic for her. And so Helga decides on a professional career.
Production notes
Thea von Harbou wrote the script based on an idea by Hans-Otto Meissner .
Dr. Holl , which was sometimes subtitled The Story of a Great Love , was shot between October 10, 1950 and January 1951. The film was shot in the Bavaria studios in Munich - Geiselgasteig , the exterior shots were taken in Sorrento and the surrounding area as well as in Rome and in the Gulf of Naples . The premiere took place on March 23, 1951 in Essen's Lichtburg . The great national success made Dr. Holl is also interesting for the international market. It was launched in Sweden in 1951, then (until 1954) in Spain, Finland, Denmark, Portugal and the USA.
Carl W. Tetting was in charge of production, and the film structures were designed by Robert Herlth .
Dr. For several reasons, Holl is of great importance in terms of film history for the still young Federal Republic. With this film, one of the most commercially successful German productions of the post-war period, the medical film genre was born. Up to the end of the Adenauer era, a wealth of other films followed, in which (mostly very noble and selfless) medical professionals were the focus, including the Sauerbruch film by Holl director Hansen. In addition, Dr. Holl achieved the final breakthrough of both Maria Schell and Dieter Borsche as West German film stars. The soulful portrayal of the moribund Angelika also earned Schell the (not very flattering) predicate "little soul".
Actually, Liselotte Pulver was supposed to play the role of the terminally ill Angelika. Immediately before, she had played her first German role in the mountain drama Föhn, also produced by Friedrich A. Mainz , with Adrian Hoven and Hans Albers . The shooting of Dr. Holl were already in full swing when Mainz had to find out that Powder, who was still underage at the time, was not legally competent and that the film contract she had signed was null and void. Powder's lawyer then offered, as can be read in Curt Riess ' memoir Das There is only once , that Pulver would still be willing to honor the contract if their fee was increased by 10,000 DM. Mainz then decided not to participate and hired Maria Schell.
Borsche's wife played the one scene in which Angelika strides through her father's palace park and can only be seen from behind. At that time, Liselotte Pulver was still under contract, but in order to save costs, she was not brought to Italy for this single foreign scene. Marianne Koch played one of her first film roles in this film.
In the original version, screenwriter Thea von Harbou had planned a double happy ending with two weddings: that of Angelika and Holl and another one from the renouncing Helga with Angelika's father, Helga's generous sponsor. This script idea was vehemently rejected by Heidemarie Hatheyer , a close confidante of Hansen since they were shooting together in 1944 ( Mathilde Möhring ). She prevailed.
The great commercial success of Dr. Holl encouraged Hansen and Mainz to shoot another doctor's film with the two Holl costars Hatheyer and Wery immediately afterwards (1951): The Last Prescription .
Awards
- The state of North Rhine-Westphalia awarded the film the title “artistically superior”.
- Dr. Holl received a certificate of honor "for the best German film in terms of acting performance" at the 1st Berlin International Film Festival in June 1951 .
Reviews
Riess especially praised Dieter Borsche's game. In 'There's only one time' it says: “The role of Dr. Holl is made for Dieter Borsche. For him, passivity acts as selflessness, inability to act as generosity. Everything negative in the manuscript is forged into something lovable or played out. Not without the help of director Rolf Hansen, who loosens Dieter Borsche infinitely, takes away everything that is tense, lets him play even the most dangerous scenes with such ease that the audience has the feeling that it is a matter of course ... "
Kay Less wrote in Rolf Hansen's biography critically about his role in the emergence of a new film genre in the early 1950s. There it said: He “initiated the wave of doctors' films at the beginning of 1951 with the commercially extremely popular“ Dr. Holl ”. Hansen's 50s doctors were full of oozing nobility, demigods in white who devotedly care for their wards (until they marry) and with old-fashioned penetrance, like Ewald Balser as Prof. Sauerbruch in "Sauerbruch - That Was My Life". to degrade their patients to underage extras. "
“The hallmark of his films is the“ man in white ”as a lonely hero. The priest and the head of state are joined by an authority figure already known from the old UFA film: the doctor. From DR. HOLL (1951) to SAUERBRUCH (1954), doctors are mostly entangled in banal, sentimental, and also unrealistic film acts - however, the doctor himself is surrounded by a peculiar aura that sets him apart from the crowd and makes him a magician, yes to stylized as a substitute priest. "
The Lexicon of International Films named Dr. Holl a "high-profile cinema drama in the star style of the 50s."
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 176
- ↑ a b c d Riess: That's only available once. The Book of German Films after 1945, Hamburg 1958. p. 286
- ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 3: F - H. Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 518.
- ↑ Klaus Brüne (Red.): Lexikon des Internationale Films, Volume 2, S. 686. Reinbek near Hamburg 1987
Web links
- Dr. Holl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dr. Holl at filmportal.de