Dr. med. Job Praetorius (1965)
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| Original title | Dr. med. Job Praetorius |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1965 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Kurt Hoffmann |
| script |
Heinz Pauck István Békeffy |
| production | Hans Domnick Filmproduktion, Wiesbaden ( Hans Domnick ) Independent Film, Berlin ( Heinz Angermeyer ) |
| music | Franz Grothe |
| camera | Richard fear |
| cut | Dagmar Hirtz |
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Dr. med. Hiob Prätorius is a German feature film by director Kurt Hoffmann and at the same time the third film adaptation of the play of the same name by Curt Goetz .
action
Dr. med. Because of his kindness and philanthropy, Job Praetorius is equally popular with patients, the medical college and the student body. Only his colleague Prof. Speiter grudges him the success.
When his patient Violetta wants to commit suicide because of an illegitimate pregnancy, Praetorius takes on the young woman. When he wants to carefully prepare her father for the news, the latter considers Praetorius to be a more than welcome admirer of his daughter. As a deep affection developed between the doctor and his patient, the two finally marry. The private happiness of the two stirs up the envy of Prof. Speiter. With the help of Praetorius' mysterious factotum Shunderson, he finally believes he can uncover dark points from the medicine's past. But Praetorius succeeds before a court of honor in refuting all allegations with wit and astonishing revelations.
background
The play was first adapted for the film by the author Goetz himself in 1950 and with him and his wife in the leading roles under the title Frauenarzt Dr. Praetorius was filmed. A year later Joseph L. Mankiewicz had the comedy People Will Talk, another film based on the play with Cary Grant in the role of the gynecologist Dr. Noah Praetorius turned.
The remake from 1964/65 was staged by Kurt Hoffmann, who had filmed a stage play by Curt Goetz with Hokuspokus in 1953 with this in the lead role. In 1966 Hoffmann shot with hocus-pocus or: How do I make my husband disappear ...? another new version of a Curt Goetz film. For both productions he was able to win Heinz Rühmann for the respective main role, which Goetz, who died in 1960, had expressly wished to play for his characters, according to his widow Valérie von Martens . As early as 1963, Rühmann embodied one of the characters by Curt Goetz in the remake Das Haus in Montevideo, directed by Helmut Käutner .
The film was shot from September 30th to November 11th, 1964. The Bavaria Atelier in Munich-Geiselgasteig served as the film studio . The outdoor shots were taken in Irschenberg as well as in Prague and the surrounding area.
The remake is characterized by a light, humorous staging that lacks the melancholic-tragicomic undertones of the first film adaptation. Nevertheless, here, too, humanistic values are emphasized and the problems of abortion and the death penalty are viewed critically.
Heinz Rühmann laid out his Praetorius as a quiet, honest and mischievous character, while Curt Goetz's Praetorius in the 1950 film version is an enthusiastic jack-of-all-trades in gestures and facial expressions, who searches for the "microbe of human stupidity" with a lot of punch and pathos he considers the cause of all envy, hatred and war.
The world premiere of Dr. med. Job Prätorius took place on January 14, 1965 in the Ufa-Palast in Hamburg , almost 15 years to the day after the premiere of the first film.
Reviews
- Lexicon of international films : "Somewhat lacquered, friendly entertainment that misses the typical humorous original in terms of direction and presentation."
- Die Welt (1965): "Rühmann has undoubtedly found one of his great and most beautiful roles here, without becoming an immodest soloist."
- Protestant film observer (review No. 27/1965): "A harmlessly nice conversation that lacks much of the irony, humor and charm of the original."
- The Wiesbaden film evaluation agency awarded the production the title valuable .
Awards
- Bambi for most commercially successful film in 1965
- Golden screen in 1966 for more than 3 million viewers
- Predicate valuable from the FBW
Web links
- Dr. med. Job Praetorius in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dr. med. Job Prätorius at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film - Kurt Hoffmann
- ↑ Dr. med. Job Praetorius. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .