Professor Mamlock (1938)

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Movie
German title Professor Mamlock
Original title Профессор Мамлок
Country of production USSR
original language Russian
Publishing year 1938
length 92 minutes
Rod
Director Herbert Rappaport
Adolf Minkin
script Friedrich Wolf
Herbert Rappaport
Adolf Minkin
production Lenfilm
music Yuri Kochurov
camera Georgi Filatov
occupation

Professor Mamlock (original title: Профессор Мамлок , Professor Mamlok ) is a Soviet feature film directed by Herbert Rappaport and Adolf Minkin from 1938 based on the play of the same name by Friedrich Wolf from 1934.

action

The film begins in the early days of National Socialism . It is about the clashes between the Communists and the National Socialists, which are still conducted publicly at rallies and discussions and which often end in battles in the hall. But the Communists, who in the increasingly illegality must go, always find sympathizers from which they receive support, including the retailer, mother Wendt heard. Their daughter Anni, who is sought after by a subtenant who does not pay rent but adheres to the National Socialist idea, also belongs to this group.

Professor Mamlock is a surgeon and head of a clinic who does not feel like a Jew , but as a German who took part in the World War and therefore does not need to be afraid of the Nazis. He is proud of his son Rolf, who is on the way to becoming a great scientist through his studies. But Rolf is not only attached to the medical ideas, but is also one of the active minds of the communist underground movement. When his father notices that Rolf is organizing meetings with like-minded people in the shared apartment, he is very excited and shows him the way to the door, as he generally does not tolerate any political activities.

After the Reichstag fire , the Nazis show their true colors. In Professor Mamlock's clinic, he is deposed as head of the clinic and chased through the city with the inscription Jude on his doctor's coat, straight away from an operation. His colleague Doctor Hellpach, an avowed National Socialist, takes over the management of the house, with the support of Frau Doktor Inge. Doctor Hellpach uses devious methods to force the rest of the staff to distance themselves from Professor Mamlock in writing and to refuse any further collaboration with him. With the exception of the assistant nurse, everyone renounces the professor who, in his disappointment, sees no way out and wants to shoot himself, which however does not succeed, which is why he has to remain in the clinic as a patient.

But not only the Jews are now being hunted, but also all critics of the Third Reich. A group is arrested for writing and printing leaflets because they are being betrayed. In the cellars of the Gestapo and the SA , the members, including Rolf Mamlock, are tortured and tortured so that they can betray other members of the group. A search for the whereabouts of the arrested remains unsuccessful. When Anni Wendt promises her mother's lodger, hoping to get some information, to go dancing with him, the Nazi, who is now a proud SA man, reveals the whereabouts of the captured communists, because he knows the place, he was himself during the torture. During the liberation of the communists that followed, one of Rolf Mamlock's friends was shot and both were able to escape persecution by escaping to the clinic, where Rolf succeeded in convincing one of the doctors to operate on his friend. In the meantime, he goes to see his father, who is lying in one of the hospital beds, and they make up again.

However, the two fugitives are observed and reported by a gardener when they enter the clinic, so that the SA surrounds the entire building. Rolf Mamlock has to flee again while his father stands on a balcony and delivers a fiery speech against fascism. As a result, the SA men are so busy that Rolf gains some time to escape until the professor is shot with a machine gun. Miss Dr. Inge's eyes opened just in time to see the inhuman spirit of reality.

Production and publication

The black and white film premiered on September 5, 1938 under the title Профессор Мамлок in Leningrad .

In Germany, Professor Mamlock premiered on November 28, 1947 in the leading cinemas of the Berlin Soviet sector .

criticism

W. Lg. Wrote in the Berliner Zeitung :

“The whole event is epically loosened up, the ambience description and the clarification of the characters is given a lot of space. ... Small inaccuracies, certain errors in the reproduction of the milieu are not too disruptive: we have a film in front of us that has a task to fulfill in Germany, although its actual task, which consisted of clarification and prosecution, is in the rest of the world may already be fulfilled. "

Be. draws the following conclusion in New Germany :

“The astonishingly real milieu created by directors Adolf Minkin and Herbert Rappaport and the skillful selection of actors make it difficult for German viewers to believe that this film was not shot in Germany and that it is Russian actors who are ours conjure up an inglorious past again, especially since the German dubbing is excellent. "

The Lexicon of International Films writes that the film is a thematically and artistically demanding drama.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neue Zeit of November 28, 1947, p. 4
  2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of November 12, 1947, p. 3
  3. ^ New Germany of November 13, 1947, p. 3
  4. ^ Professor Mamlock. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 4, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used