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Released
1955 · FILM

Herr über Leben und Tod

Directed by
Victor Vicas
Written by
Frederic Grendel, Horst Hachler
Runtime
87 min
Language
DE
Drama

Synopsis

Barbara is married to Georg Bertram, a professor of medicine who once saved her father's life. Things go awry for the couple when she gives birth to a mentally defective child. For Georg, coldly clinical, euthanizing the infant is the only way out. He is about to commit the irreparable when Barbara manages to interrupt his fatal act. By mutual agreement, husband and wife decide that Barbara will go to Saint-Guénolé in Brittany, where she and their son will be cared for by Louise Kerbrec, Georg's former nurse, in the hypothetical hope that the boy's condition will improve. What they do not know yet is that Barbara will meet there another doctor, Daniel Karentis, much more sympathetic than Georg and also much handsomer.

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Principal cast & crew: 20

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Edited by Ira OberbergShot by Goran StrindbergScored by Hans Martin MajewskiDesigned by Hans Ledersteger

Also known as

  • Master Over Life and Deathes
  • Dans tes brasfr

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