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Professor Mamlock (1938)
Based on a play by a German-Jewish exile in Moscow, Friedrich Wolf, and directed by an Austrian-Jewish exile in Moscow, Herbert Rappaport, the film tells with the story of an apolitical humanitarian Jewish doctor and his politically-aware, fascism-resisting son, an intern, as their lives become entangled with the Nazis’ rise to power in 1930s Germany, where they live and practice. Things come to a head when the Nazi organization takes control of their hospital, and place a rabid antisemitic physician in charge over Mamlock and his staff.
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Based on a play by a German-Jewish exile in Moscow, Friedrich Wolf, and directed by an Austrian-Jewish exile in Moscow, Herbert Rappaport, the film tells with the story of an apolitical humanitarian Jewish doctor and his politically-aware, fascism-resisting son, an intern, as their lives become entangled with the Nazis’ rise to power in 1930s Germany, where they live and practice. Things come to a head when the Nazi organization takes control of their hospital, and place a rabid antisemitic physician in charge over Mamlock and his staff.
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Genre:Drama
Written By:Adolf Minkin, Herbert Rappaport, Friedrich Wolf, Leonid Lyubashevsky
In Theaters:11/6/1938
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Runtime:100 minutes
Studio:Lenfilm
Cast
Adolf Minkin, Herbert Rappaport
Director
Semyon Mezhinsky
Prof. Hans Mamlock
Oleg Zhakov
Rolf Mamlock
Nina Shaternikova
Dr. Inge
Vladimir Chestnokov
Dr. Hellpach
Pyotr Kirillov
Ernst
Vasili Merkuryev
Franz Krauss
Tatyana Guretskaya
Anni Wendt
Yuriy Tolubeev
Fritz
Georgiy Budarov
Resistance Organizer Willi
Boris Shlikhting
Magistrate Kepke
Yakov Malyutin
Colonel
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