Dr. med. Summer II
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| Original title | Dr. med. Summer II |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1970 |
| length | 90 minutes |
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| Director | Lothar Warneke |
| script | Lothar Warneke Hannes Hüttner |
| production | DEFA |
| music | Gerhard Rosenfeld |
| camera | Roland Graef |
| cut | Erika Lehmphul |
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Dr. med. Sommer II is a German contemporary film by DEFA directed by Lothar Warneke from 1970 .
action
The doctor, who has just come from university to a small town hospital, Dr. As soon as he arrives, Sommer has a strange experience. While he is looking for his future station, Dr. Summer declared an emergency. Then he gets a smock and gives first aid. When the senior physician Dr. Sommer turns out that there are now two colleagues with the same name and the new one is immediately given the name Sommer II. As a position as a ward doctor is currently vacant, he takes on this role and in his initial enthusiasm is confronted with numerous professional and interpersonal problems . Thanks to his open and determined manner, he is able to cope with the difficulties that arise, as he also relies on the support of the clinic director Dr. Hagedorn can count, although he immediately instructed him during the first joint operation.
He often meets the nurse Emmylie doing cleaning work in the stairwell and on the ward. Time in which she could actually pursue medical tasks. Heiner Sommer ensures that a cleaner (Aunt Emmylies) is employed. Emmylie takes a liking to the new doctor and supports him on many occasions. So z. B. when looking for a room in the small town or when shopping, because he does not know the place. During her first night watch, she wakes Dr. Summer every few minutes to convey her observations to the patient to the doctor. When an actual emergency is admitted and the senior physician cannot appear for the operation in time, he already begins the operation. He is even praised for his good work.
During a visit to his girlfriend Gunkel in Halle, he tries to convince her to start with him in the hospital. But she would like to continue working in research and not give up her beautiful new apartment. So he goes back to the hospital by himself.
Since he wants to build an honest relationship with his patients, he reveals to the newly operated Franconian that he has an incurable stomach cancer, whereupon he chooses suicide. This openness of the doctor is highly controversial among many participants. But with the support of his colleagues, Dr. Summer II also overcome this shock.
Many questions remain open at the end of the film, but that is good for it. Various things are clear, however: Professor Hagedorn will forego private patients in the future (except for electricians and tilers), Emmylie passes the exam as a nurse, the senior doctor reconsiders his relationship with Sister Gerda and the new technology and thus research will find its way into the hospital.
production
Dr. med. Summer II was shot in the hospitals in Greiz and Berlin-Köpenick and had its premiere on October 1st, 1970 in the Berlin Kino International . As many scenes as possible were shot on the original locations, real hospital staff acted as extras. However, several members of the rotating staff were also employed as doctors: director Lothar Warneke , still photographer Waltraut Pathenheimer , composer Gerhard Rosenfeld and fellow director Roland Oehme. The scenarioist Hannes Hüttner was a doctor himself.
After collaborating with Roland Oehme , this film is actually Lothar Warneke's directorial debut .
Awards
- Predicate: valuable
- Red Cross Film Festival Varna (1971): Gold medal
- Heinrich Greif Prize, 1st class (1971) for Lothar Warneke
criticism
In the weekly newspaper Die Weltbühne , Lothar Kusche wrote that all the actors and extras appear to him as if he has seen them before in his life. This is a humane, humourous, critical, and thought-provoking movie. Heinz Kersten claims that the young Babelsberg filmmakers succeeded better than other film productions in depicting the "creation of the socialist image of man" with these unpretentious everyday impressions.
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 116-117 .
Web links
- Dr. med. Summer II in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dr. med. Summer II at filmportal.de
- Dr. med. Summer II at the DEFA Foundation