Movie

Herr über Leben und Tod

(de)

1955

1h27m

Herr über Leben und Tod

Drama

Overview: 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.

Status: Released

Release date: January 7, 1955

Countries of origin: Germany,

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Production company:
  • Inter West Film

Top Cast

Maria Schell

Maria Schell

as Barbara Bertram

Ivan Desny

Ivan Desny

as Dr. Daniel Kare...

Wilhelm Borchert

Wilhelm Borchert

as Professor Georg...

Fritz Tillmann

Fritz Tillmann

as Dr. Peter

Reinhold Bernt

Reinhold Bernt

as Bahnwärter