A doctor's secret

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Movie
German title A doctor's secret
Original title A doctor's secret / love at a crossroads
Country of production Germany , Austria
original language German
Publishing year 1955
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director August Rieger
Karl Stanzl
script August Rieger
Hans Fritz Koellner
production Ernest Müller
music Carl Loubé
camera Walter Partsch
cut August Rieger
Karl Stanzl
Irene Tomschik
Raimund Warta
occupation

and Ellen Umlauf , Elisabeth Ettel , Katharina Gerin , Lore Feiger , Volker Krystoph , Emmerich Arleth , Philipp von Zeska , Ingold Platzer , Gretl Reiner

The secret of a doctor is a German-Austrian melodrama from 1955 with Hilde Krahl and Ewald Balser in the leading roles. The film, directed by August Rieger and Karl Stanzl , was based on the radio play Rauschgift by Victor Reingruber .

action

The assistant doctor Dr. Gerda Maurer made a decisive mistake during her professional activity and was then brought to court and sentenced to imprisonment. When she has served her time behind bars, she can initially no longer find employment in the profession she has learned and has to make do with a low job in a bar. In an accident, Gerda gets to know the respected surgeon Prof. Stephan Wendlandt, who is impressed with her skills and wants to give her a second chance. The professor ensures that the clearly too harsh court judgment is overturned and makes Dr. Maurer as his personal assistant.

One day morphine recipes are missing in Wendlandt's environment , whereupon Gerda is immediately suspected of having stolen them. Even the professor can no longer believe in Gerda's innocence and turns away from her. Dr. Maurer then goes looking for the perpetrator himself in order to prove her innocence. She finds it in the bar where she once worked. The thief caught then flees, is followed by the police and finally shot. Prof. Wendlandt recognizes his mistake and apologizes to Gerda. Both had fallen in love in the meantime, and now nothing stands in the way of Gerda's personal happiness, in addition to starting a new career.

Production notes

The shooting took place in the spring of 1955 in the Ringfilm studio in Vienna-Kalvarienberg. The exterior photos were taken in Burgenland as well as in Vienna and the surrounding area. The premiere took place on August 12, 1955 under the Austrian title Liebe am Scheideweg in Graz, the German premiere was held six days later in Stuttgart. The Berlin premiere was on August 19th of the same year.

Producer Ernest Müller also took over the production management. Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff designed the film structures, Gerda Walter the costumes, Sepp Riff took over the camera work under head cameraman Walter Partsch . Wolfgang Sauer and Easy Maya will sing . Dolores Hubert took care of the choreography.

Reviews

The criticism was very inconsistent about the staging of the two up to then little directing experienced Messrs. Rieger and Stanzl. Dirk Jasper saw a “audience-effective mixture of doctor's melodrama and crime film, which is attractively cast with Hilde Krahl and Ewald Balser”, while the lexicon of international films identified a “fateful story in the manner of magazines” and criticized the “miserable direction”.

Individual proof

  1. ↑ secret to a doctor on film-Lexikon.de, accessed on December 1, 2019

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