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Master Over Life and Death (1955)

★ 9.0/10 87 min Drama Germany German
Director: Victor Vicas
Streaming: Not available

Description

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.

Top Cast

Maria Schell
Maria Schell Barbara Bertram
Ivan Desny
Ivan Desny Dr. Daniel Karentis
Wilhelm Borchert
Wilhelm Borchert Professor Georg Bertram
Fritz Tillmann
Fritz Tillmann Dr. Peter
Reinhold Bernt
Reinhold Bernt Bahnwärter
Walter Bluhm
Walter Bluhm Werner Hansen
Arthur Reinhardt

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