Under the Skin - The Second Life of Dr. Schoeneich

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documentary
Original title Under the Skin - The Second Life of Dr. Schoeneich
DVD The Two Lives of Dr. Schoeneich.png
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2003
length 67 minutes
Rod
Director Andrea Schramm
script Andrea Schramm
production Jörg Bundschuh
music Pascal Capitolin
camera Bernd Meiners
cut Lorenz Kloska

The documentary Under the Skin - The Second Life of Dr. Schoeneich (2003) by the director Andrea Schramm accompanies the plastic surgeon Heinrich Schoeneich during a humanitarian mission in Burma. The film was released in 2005 under the title The Two Lives of Dr. Schoeneich on DVD.

content

In addition to working in his Munich practice, Heinrich Schoeneich is drawn to a world far away from breast enlargements and eyelid corrections. For ten years he has devoted three months a year to the planning of humanitarian aid missions, traveling free of charge with Interplast-Germany to countries such as Burma, Afghanistan and Nigeria to operate on people who cannot afford reconstructive surgical treatment. The film initially shows him in his private surroundings, immediately afterwards on the way to Myitkyina in northern Burma, where hundreds of children with severe burns and disfiguring malformations are already waiting for him. Arrived in the former rebel area, the camera sensitively documents all aspects of his two-week assignment, from dealing with his patients and colleagues, through power outages, case discussions to intimate moments of retreat and introspection. In interviews with the protagonist, his wife Sima and other comrades-in-arms, the director seeks and finds the motives for this “second life of Dr. Schoeneich ”, an unwavering commitment for which surgeons in Germany often have to justify themselves.

production

The film was produced in co-production with Bayerischer (BR) and Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR). The editor for BR was Brigitte Schroedter, editor for WDR Enno Hungerland. The speaker was Juliane Köhler , the speaker was Hans-Jürgen Stockerl. The film premiered on July 29, 2002 in Munich; the official year of release is 2003.

title

The title of the film was quoted differently in the press and media. The website of the director Schramm & Matthes-Film lists him as Under the Skin - The Second Life of Dr. Schoeneich (2003), the German Digital Library as Under the Skin - The Second Life of Dr. Schoeneich , the protagonist's website lists him as Under the Skin - The Two Lives of Dr. Schoeneich and the homepage of the production company Kick Film presents him as The Two Lives of Dr. Schoeneich and the English title The Two Lifes of Dr. Schoeneich (2005).

Broadcast dates

The film was broadcast on Phoenix and Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) in 2003. ARD / ONE showed it in 2012.

criticism

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) found that this documentation shed light on the “second soul” of a person whose life this split applied to as it did to a few: Heinrich Schoeneich. The camera approaches his Burmese patients cautiously, at a respectful distance and yet relentlessly. It shows the suffering to an extent that a single doctor and his team could never master. Schoeneich himself would give the “drop in the ocean” the positive attitude towards life that he needed to work in Munich on the “beautification” of local bodies. How long he could endure this inner conflict, however, he doesn't know - the film also vividly captures this in images.

The Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ) emphasized that the film does not tell the tears of the doctor as a superman, but rather reaches the audience sensitively and in a profound way. He shows that helping is possible and reminds of it without teaching.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DVD blurb credits, Kick Film, 2005
  2. ↑ film portal. 2013, accessed November 9, 2017 .
  3. ^ Original film title, Schramm-Matthes-Film, portfolio. Retrieved November 9, 2017 .
  4. ^ German digital library, film title. Retrieved December 26, 2017 .
  5. ^ Heinrich Schoeneich, press. Retrieved November 9, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Kick Film, DVD title. Retrieved November 9, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Phoenix broadcast schedule. Retrieved November 9, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Phoenix broadcast schedule. Retrieved November 9, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Phoenix broadcast schedule. Retrieved November 9, 2017 .
  10. ^ BR television spectator service - archive TV program. Retrieved November 17, 2017 .
  11. ↑ ARD program overview . Retrieved November 9, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Review by Sandra Theiss (FAZ), Schramm-Matthes-Film, Portfolio. Retrieved November 9, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Review (WAZ), Kick Film, engl. Version. Retrieved November 9, 2017 .