Professor Mamlock

original title:
Professor Mamlock
country / year of production:
German Democratic Republic / 1961
original length:
99 min. , black/white
premiere:
SU: July 1961, Moscow Film Festival
genre:
adventure
based on:
Friedrich Wolf. Professor Mamlock. New York: Universum Publishers and Distributors, 1935.
director:
Konrad Wolf
film script:
Karl-Georg Egel , Friedrich Wolf
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cast (role):
Doris Abeßer , Ursula Burg , Günther Grabbert
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plot synopsis:
The film takes place during World War II and tells the tragical story of the Jewish professor Mamlock. His belief in humanity and human kindness becomes his undoing in Germany in the 1930s.
keywords:
fascism , anti-semitism , Holocaust , expulsion , escape , concentration camps
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
literature:
Peter Longerich:"Davon haben wir nichts gewusst!": Die Deutschen und die Judenverfolgung 1933-1945. München: Siedler, 2006. ISBN: 3-88680-843-2
remarks:
Picturisation of the play of Konrad Wolfs' father.

Won an award at the Moscow International Film Festival in 1961.
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