Gynecologist Dr. Bertram

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Movie
Original title Gynecologist Dr. Bertram
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1957
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Alfred Braun
script J. A. Huebler-Kahla
production J. A. Huebler-Kahla
music Horst Dempwolff
camera Erich Claunigk
cut Ingrid Wacker
occupation

and Angelika Ritter , Florentine von Castell , Klaus Langer , Werner Lieven

Gynecologist Dr. Bertram is a German melodrama from 1957 by Werner Klingler with Willy Birgel , Winnie Markus and Antje Geerk , who made her debut here in front of the camera, in the lead roles. The story is based on the stage play Der Frauenarzt Dr. Bertram by Hans J. Rehfisch .

action

Dr. Bertram, an experienced gynecologist, was drafted in the Second World War despite his advanced age and served on the Eastern Front. There he got into Soviet captivity, from which he was only released as a late returnee in order to return to his hometown. During his absence, Bertram's then pregnant fiancée Elisabeth died in the Allied hail of bombs. This relationship resulted in a daughter named Hilde in 1940 (which Bertram knows nothing about). The baby of yore has become a pretty, 17-year-old, blonde mannequin. Since his late fiancée got married after she had to believe that Bertram had died in the war, Hilde now bears the name Bogner. The gynecologist is not surprised when he meets the young woman, who has a strong resemblance to Elisabeth, and falls in love with her. He, who over the years had become a staunch opponent of abortion , also knows nothing of Hilde's mother's decision to keep the child. Back then, Bertram had advised her to have an abortion because he did not know whether he would survive the war. Bertram's attitude towards the girl, for whom he had just had romantic feelings, changes suddenly when he learns of his fatherhood from Mrs. Losch, a local café owner. Hilde, on the other hand, does not know who her real father is.

In a fit of his own horror at his feelings, Dr. Bertram harshly away from his daughter Hilde, without explaining to the confused girl. She in turn flees into the arms of Kurt Losch, a ruthless man who shamelessly exploits her emotional confusion and impregnates Hilde. In your plight, please the young model Dr. Bertram in his capacity as a gynecologist for help. When he refuses an abortion because he thinks it is "murder", Hilde consults an "angel maker" who almost kills her while attempting an abortion. Bertram saves in cooperation with his assistant Dr. Warsitz got his daughter through emergency surgery. She will be able to have children again. For an interruption of pregnancy, Dr. Bertram was never able to do this for moral reasons alone. The old doctor explains frankly to his assistant doctor: "Only God alone has the right to decide about life and death". After the drama is over, Hilde goes on a trip to Italy with her father, who has since found a wife for life, in order to get to know her producer better and to establish family ties. And in the serious Dr. Warsitz now finds Hilde a man who can stand in the eyes of her strict father.

Production notes

Gynecologist Dr. Bertram was written in mid-1957 and premiered on November 14, 1957 in the Hannoveraner Palast-Kino.

Albert Stenzel took over the production management. Max Mellin designed the film structures implemented by Karl Weber .

Reviews

In the lexicon of the international film it says succinctly: "A morally disguised backstairs story."

On kino.de you can read: "Moral acid post-war drama about a doctor who falls in love with his own daughter."

literature

  • Udo Benzenhöfer (ed.): Medicine in the feature film of the fifties. Essay by Sabine Schleiermacher: “Gynecologist Dr. Bertram ”(1957) - a German stirring piece. P. 74 ff. Pfaffenweiler 1993

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gynecologist Dr. Bertram. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 1, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Brief review

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