Sauerbruch - That was my life
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Sauerbruch - That was my life |
| Country of production | BR Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1954 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rolf Hansen |
| script | Felix Lützkendorf |
| production |
Alexander Grüter for Corona Film Hermann Schwerin for Fono-Film |
| music | Mark Lothar |
| camera | Helmuth Ashley |
| cut | Anna Höllering |
| occupation | |
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Sauerbruch - That was my life is a German feature film from 1954. It is based on the memoirs by Ferdinand Sauerbruch (ghostwriter: Hans Rudolf Berndorff ) that had recently appeared in the Illustrated Revue under the title That was my life . Sauerbruch - That was my life is considered one of the most successful doctor films .
action
Berlin, 1948: Olga Ahrends falls in front of a tram and is seriously injured. Professor Sauerbruch arrives and orders her to be admitted to the surgical department of the Charité , where he wants to treat her. Since the fall is interpreted as an attempted suicide, she is first referred to the psychiatric department.
Sauerbruch and the doctors in the psychiatric department diagnose the patient with neurotic epilepsy, while Sauerbruch realizes that she is actually suffering from a metabolic disease that weakens the bones. There is a risk of losing her leg, but by removing the parathyroid he can restore the young woman. She doesn't have to worry about financing the operation either.
In addition to this framework story, there are numerous other episodes, some in flashbacks, that show Sauerbruch in his daily work. Because he steadfastly adhered to his professional ethos during the Munich Soviet Republic and treated the injuries of Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley , the assassin of the Bavarian Prime Minister Kurt Eisner , he was kidnapped so as not to be able to help the enemies of the revolutionaries, but by a young one Rescued man whose mother he once operated on. At the deathbed of Reich President Paul von Hindenburg , however, he had to admit the limits of medical art and calm Hindenburg's fears that after his death "he" ( Adolf Hitler, who was appointed by Hindenburg as Reich Chancellor ) would swear in the armies on himself, with the objection that you can only act out of the situation and it is always easier to judge history afterwards. The flashback of another patient, Sauerbruch, is more of a cheerful nature, a waiter who is at first concerned about his surgery bill, but then only irritated and finally reacted with relief when Sauerbruch presented him with a bill for one mark.
After work, Sauerbruch operated on a tomcat because his master did not trust the vets. Between his operations, he lectures and examines young doctors. Sauerbruch only has a very limited time for his private life. But his wife blends in with his puritan lifestyle without complaint.
In further flashbacks, Sauerbruch also talks about his invention, with which operations on the open chest were possible for the first time. During his student days, tuberculosis claimed many lives because surgery on the lungs was not possible. When a storm struck Sauerbruch's room window, Sauerbruch came up with the idea of a negative pressure chamber, which should ensure pressure compensation when the chest cavity is opened. The first operation failed because the patient, an old woman, died. But the next operation on a young opera singer provided the desired proof that Sauerbruch was not wrong about his invention. The Sauerbruch arm , a forearm prosthesis designed by Sauerbruch, is also mentioned when Sauerbruch's wife shows him one of his previous patients, who is performing an organ concert with the prosthesis in question.
Production notes
The film was produced in the studio of Bavaria Film in Geiselgasteig . The shooting took place from September 26, 1953 to January 20, 1954 in West Berlin , Munich , Frankfurt am Main , Hamburg and Vienna . Robert Herlth and Gottfried Will created the buildings, Heinz Abel was production manager.
The world premiere was in the mass start on July 13, 1954 in West Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Munich, Hamburg and other cities.
Reviews
- Reclam's Lexikon des Deutschen Films (1995): “ With the help of tried and tested character actors right down to the supporting roles, the doctor's portrait, thanks to its combination of emotion-centered humanity and jovial-paternalistic humor, was particularly effective on an emotional level. Symptomatic of numerous films from the Adenauer era is the conservative, reactionary worldview that was established through the unreflective stylization of heroic figures. "
- Heyne Filmlexikon (1996): “The idealized life picture of the famous Berlin doctor as a 'demigod in white' that is as ingenious as it is close to the people. "
- Lexicon of international films : “ A high-profile film biography, carefully detailed and conservative in spirit. "
- Lexicon "Films on TV" (1990): "(...) hymn of praise to the rough and warm gods in white; large number of mostly convincing actors in the interest of promoting and believing in authority." (Rating: 2½ out of 4 possible stars = above average)
- 6000 Films (1963): "Episodes presented with audience appeal (...). Careful detailed work by sly film people. Placed on soulful humanity, idealizing character drawings and rough humor. In some parts warmly appealing. Politically restorative. Worth seeing despite such objections."
Awards
- Predicate "valuable" the Film Review Board
literature
- Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Hans Rudolf Berndorff: That was my life. Kindler & Schiermeyer, Bad Wörishofen 1951; numerous new editions, such as:
- Ferdinand Sauerbruch: That was my life. Biography . (Complete paperback edition.) Droemer Knaur, Munich 1995, 499 pages, ISBN 3-426-75026-0
- Udo Benzenhöfer : "Cut for Germany!". Comments on the film "Sauerbruch - That Was My Life" (1954). In the S. and Wolfgang U. Eckart (Hrsg.): Medicine in the feature film of the fifties . Centaurus, Pfaffenweiler 1993, pp. 60-73. ISBN 3-89085-903-8
- Gerhard Bliersbach: The heather was so green. The German post-war film in a new perspective . Beltz Verlag, Weinheim and Basel 1985, pp. 51–62. ISBN 3-407-85055-7
Web links
- Sauerbruch - This was my life in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sauerbruch - That was my life at Filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Hans Rudolf Berndorff: That was my life. Kindler & Schiermeyer, Bad Wörishofen 1951; cited: Licensed edition for Bertelsmann Lesering, Gütersloh 1956, p. 320 f.
- ^ Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , pp. 461-462
- ↑ Sauerbruch - That was my life. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 1, 2017 .
- ^ Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz in Lexicon "Films on TV". (Extended new edition.) Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 703
- ↑ 6000 films. Critical notes from the cinema years 1945 to 1958 . Handbook V of the Catholic film criticism, 3rd edition, Verlag Haus Altenberg, Düsseldorf 1963, p. 369