Dr. Wester's last patient
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Dr. Wester's last patient |
| Original title | Wearers |
| Country of production | Sweden |
| original language | Swedish |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lars-Magnus Lindgren |
| script | Lars-Magnus Lindgren |
| production | Inge Ivarson |
| music |
Bo Nilsson , Karl-Erik Welin , Johann Sebastian Bach |
| camera | Tony Forsberg |
| cut | Ingemar Ejve |
| occupation | |
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Dr. Wester's last patient (original title: Träfracken ) is a Swedish film drama with criminal elements in black and white from 1966 by Lars-Magnus Lindgren , who also wrote the screenplay. It is based on the novel Der Holzfrack by Jan Ekström . Gunnar Björnstrand , Elsa Prawitz , Catrin Westerlund and Ulla Sjöblom can be seen in the leading roles . The work had its world premiere on June 27, 1966 in Sweden. In the Federal Republic of Germany it was first shown in the cinema on May 28, 1968.
action
Dr. Wester seems to have failed: deported to the provinces, separated from his wife and child, he is surrounded by the aura of a man who could have made progress. In the hospital in which he is now chief physician, his love affairs with the patients do not remain hidden, he is also a masochist and is in cahoots with the head nurse when it comes to letting someone die earlier ...
One day, a young woman is admitted who is extravagant, addicted to gambling and has a falling out with her father and sister. She has had a mysterious car accident - apparently the brake hoses were deliberately damaged, leading to a collision with another car - and soon afterwards she is found murdered with a scalpel after she also got involved with the chief doctor. Who is the culprit?
Two police officers who are initially only concerned with solving the traffic offense, finally also take on the murder case. However, the police cannot prevent the fall of the window of the doctor who tried to kill his wife in this way. So the doctor himself - and not his wife - found death. And although all threads with Dr. Wester run together, the policemen grope in the dark until the end of the film - and so do the audience. The final picture shows a suddenly cracking close-up of the doctor's young daughter.
Reviews
The evangelical film observer draws the following conclusion: "Unsuccessful psychological crime thriller [...]: the viewer is neither informed about the acts nor about the motives for the crime. Therefore: despite a few merits without a recommendation. ”The lexicon of international films comes to a similar assessment :“ Half-baked mixture of horror and crime film, staged with unsafe taste. ”
Web links
- Dr. Westers last patient in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 311/1968, pp. 320–321.
- ↑ Lexikon des Internationale Films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 from 1988, p. 691.