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Professor Mamlock (1938)
Directed by Gerbert Rappaport, Adolf Minkin
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.
Length 100 minutes
Actors
Semyon Mezhinsky | Oleg Zhakov | Nina Shaternikova | Vladimir Chestnokov | Pyotr Kirillov | Vasiliy Merkurev | Tatyana Guretskaya | Yuriy Tolubeev | Georgiy Budarov | Boris Shlikhting | Yakov Malyutin | Pavel Sukhanov | Vladimir Taskin