Master Over Life and Death
1955 · Movie · 87 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
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.
Direction Victor Vicas
Cast Maria Schell · Ivan Desny · Ernst Wilhelm Borchert · Olga Limburg · Walter Bluhm · Fritz Tillmann · Daniel Mendaille · Héléna Manson · Heinz Giese · Reinhold Bernt
Soundtrack Hans-Martin Majewski
Screenplay Frédéric Grendel · Horst Hächler · Victor Vicas · Carl Zuckmayer
Cinematography Göran Strindberg
Original title Herr über Leben und Tod
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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