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Professor Mamlock (1938)

Professor Mamlock (1938)

Drama
Release Date: 1938, September 4
Directors: Herbert Rappaport, Adolf Minkin
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Lenfilm
Cast: Oleg Zhakov, Nina Shaternikova, Yuriy Tolubeev, Vasili Merkuryev, Anna Zarzhitskaya, Boris Feodosyev, Vladimir Chestnokov, Grigori Merlinskiy, Yakov Malyutin, Georgiy Budarov, Aleksandr Mazayev, Tatyana Guretskaya

Overview:

Made in Stalin’s Soviet Union, Professor Mamlock was one of the first films worldwide to tackle Nazi anti-Semitism openly. 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.