Gynecologist Dr. shepherd

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Movie
Original title Gynecologist Dr. shepherd
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1928
length 99 minutes
Rod
Director Jakob Fleck
Luise Fleck
script Jane Bess
production Liddy Hegewald
music Willy Schmidt-Gentner
camera Georg Muschner
occupation

Gynecologist Dr. Shepherd is a German silent film -Melodram in 1928. Under the direction of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Fleck and Luise Fleck play Ivan Petrovich , Evelyn Holt and Hans Albers , the leading roles.

action

At a medical conference, the venerable Professor Hausen speaks out against abortions, which he generally regards as "immoral". His student gynecologist Dr. Schäfer, the fiancé of Hausen's daughter Evelyn, sees it a little differently. On the other hand, he advocates a change in the law of the relevant paragraph, which should enable intervention in certain cases. Old Hausen then withdraws his consent to Evelyn's marriage to Schäfer. According to the old man, his views “do not guarantee the happiness of his daughter”. But, contrary to Hausen suspects, Schäfer takes his ethical professional approach to protecting unborn life seriously. When he met Lucie Walker one day, who asks him to have an abortion from her friend who became pregnant through recklessness, he refused this request. When Prof. Hausen is temporarily unable to practice due to an accident, Dr. Schäfer as a representative, but is abruptly rejected. Instead, Dr. Greber the job, a monocle-ridden, greasy colleague of Schäfers.

Greber quickly approaches Evelyn. She is not completely averse, because Evelyn believes that her fiancé was most recently inappropriately involved with Lucie Walker. One day, Dr. Schäfer called to Lucie's acquaintance, with whom he had recently refused an abortion. Another man had done this instead, without proceeding properly. Now Lucie's girlfriend is dying. Lucie also knows who the quackery was: Dr. Greber! Schäfer then confronts him with his crime and demands that he leave the country immediately. Evelyn also learned from Lucie what Greber had done and wants to confront him with her knowledge in his apartment. But the unscrupulous "medic" attacks Evelyn and then flees. The raped woman then runs to her ex-fiancé and asks for help. Dr. Schäfer promises her to perform the procedure professionally. Then Dr. Schäfer Prof. Hausen from the events. He is repentant and can now understand Schäfer's position on abortion.

Production notes

Gynecologist Dr. Schäfer was made at the beginning of 1928. The film passed the censorship on April 11, 1928 and was premiered on April 24, 1928 in Berlin's Capitol cinema. The film had seven acts, spread over 2,498 meters, and was banned from young people.

Max Heilbronner designed the film structures, Kurt Heinz was the production manager.

The film was shown again on October 28, 2019 at the Viennale.

reception

The reviews from then and now came to completely different judgments. Here are three examples:

“One can say without exaggeration that this film by the Fleck couple is the greatest trash that has ever been seen. (...) Neither the direction of the Flecks, which is confused and inconsistent, nor the manuscript by Jane Bess deserve any critical review. "

- Berliner Volks-Zeitung, end of April 1928

"The audience at the premiere didn't take it [the film] seriously either, but often laughed out of a very justified mood of protest."

- Forward , April 25, 1928

“Louise [sic!] Fleck presents her drama about the timelessness of restrictive abortion legislation against the background of modern urban reality. The seriousness is preserved, however, because topics such as unwanted pregnancy, sexual violence and the consequences of improperly carried out abortions are not only dealt with in secondary characters, but are placed at the center of the cinematic narrative. "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ criticism on viennale.at

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