Master Over Life and Death (1955)
1h 27m
Running Time
January 7, 1955Release Date
Master Over Life and Death (1955)
1h 27m
Running Time
January 7, 1955Release Date
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.
Maria Schell
Barbara Bertram
Ivan Desny
Dr. Daniel Karentis
Wilhelm Borchert
Professor Georg Bertram
Ivan Desny
Dr. Daniel Karentis
Fritz Tillmann
Dr. Peter
Reinhold Bernt
Bahnwärter
Olga Limburg
Anna Bertram
Walter Bluhm
Werner Hansen
Details.
Release DateJanuary 7, 1955
Original NameHerr über Leben und Tod
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 27m
Filming LocationsPenmarch, France
Genres
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Wiki.
Master of Life and Death (German: Herr über Leben und Tod) is a 1955 West German drama film directed by Victor Vicas and starring Maria Schell, Ivan Desny and Wilhelm Borchert. It was shot at the Spandau Studios in West Berlin and on location around the city and in Brittany. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hans Ledersteger and Ernst Richter. It is based on the 1938 novel of the same title by Carl Zuckmayer.