Dr. med. Fabian - laughter is the best medicine
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| Original title | Dr. med. Fabian - laughter is the best medicine |
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| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1969 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Harald Reinl |
| script | Georg Laforet |
| production | Rialto Film ( Horst Wendlandt ) |
| music | Martin Böttcher |
| camera | Karl Löb |
| cut | Jutta Hering |
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Dr. med. Fabian - Lachen is the best medicine is a German comedy film by Harald Reinl from 1969.
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Senior Physician Dr. Paul Fabian works in the surgical department of a clinic, which is headed by chief physician Dr. Spalke is headed. Paul is popular with the medical students, some of whom are examined during the regular golf game of the two doctors. One day Henriette Gambaroff is brought to the clinic for an upcoming appendectomy. Paul cheats in front of Spalke that the patient is an excellent golfer and Spalke operates on her. A little later he proposed to the attractive woman in her late forties and shortly afterwards he had his sixth marriage. Henriette brings the late-pubescent Susanne into the marriage. Paul is supposed to take care of the young woman during the honeymoon.
Paul has been with Dr. Inge Vollmer together, but successfully defends himself against a marriage. Susanne, on the other hand, does everything she can to conquer Paul, takes him to a dance club with Inge and finally moves in with him. Paul will have a favor to ask of her soon. The patient Ms. Dorn refuses to undergo an urgently needed thyroid operation, as she no longer sees any meaning in life after an argument with her son Joachim. Paul seeks out Joachim, who has dropped out and has a dubious girlfriend. He makes it clear to him how his mother is doing. He forges a plan with Susanne: she and Joachim visit his mother and pretend to be Joachim's new friend. Joachim, in turn, promises his mother to continue studying. Fun becomes serious: Joachim actually enrolls in Freiburg to study and Susanne falls in love with Joachim. Both want to get married and Spalke, who is coming from the honeymoon, also gives his consent in the end.
Several things are going well for Paul too: He had brought a heavily pregnant woman from a taxi to his house, where she gave birth to a child. She neither wanted to name the child's father nor provide information about her family. The next day she was gone and Paul brought the baby to the clinic for further care. Some time later, the woman was taken to the clinic with a broken leg after attempting suicide. Research by Spalke shows that she is the consul's daughter Renate Lürsen. Their relationship had been rejected and rejected by the family. Spalke lets Consul Lürsen come to the clinic and compresses him because he didn't deserve his grandson. Lürsen is overwhelmed because he didn't know anything about his grandchild. The father and daughter are reconciled. Paul, in turn, will leave Spalkes Klinik and become chief physician in Heidelberg - and takes Dr. Inge Vollmer at his side as his wife.
production
The film was shot from June 11 to July 17, 1969 in a clinic in West Berlin and in the CCC studios. After Three Men in a Boat from 1961, Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff was seen for the first time in a movie. In the meantime he had become popular nationwide through the television show One Will Win and Dr. med. Fabian - Laughter is the best medicine contains numerous references to the TV show: The program's theme tune is played when “Paul” enters a lecture hall. Martin Jente , who plays the butler Kulenkampff in EWG, has a supporting role as the butler of the patient called Your Royal Highness - during the round, "Paul" notes that the butler's face looks familiar to him.
Reinl had taken over the direction of the film, because in return he had been promised the realization of his desired project Memories of the future . The film premiered on September 16, 1969 in the Gloria-Palast in Berlin .
Fritz Klotzsch was in charge of production, and Ingrid Zoré designed the costumes . The film structures come from Paul Zerbel.
criticism
For the film service , Dr. med. Fabian - Laughter is the best medicine a “pink-red, optimistic comedy with differently igniting gags and a strong shot of sentimentality.” Even the Protestant film observer doesn't think much of the film: “A clichéd film about doctors, love, clinics and good students. Loveless and sloppy and mostly uncomfortable. "
literature
- Dr. med. Fabian - laughter is the best medicine . In: Kristina Pöschl, Miriam Trescher, Reinhard Weber: Harald Reinl. The director who brought Winnetou, Edgar Wallace and the Nibelungen to the cinema. A bio and filmography . Reinhard Weber specialist publisher for film literature, Landshut 2011, ISBN 978-3-9809390-9-6 , pp. 147–148.
Web links
- Dr. med. Fabian - Laughter is the best medicine in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dr. med. Fabian - Laughter is the best medicine at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dr. med. Fabian - laughter is the best medicine . In: Kristina Pöschl, Miriam Trescher, Reinhard Weber: Harald Reinl. The director who brought Winnetou, Edgar Wallace and the Nibelungen to the cinema. A bio and filmography . Reinhard Weber specialist publisher for film literature, Landshut 2011, p. 147.
- ↑ Dr. med. Fabian - laughter is the best medicine. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 425/1969