Master Over Life and Death

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 7, 1955

Original language

German

Countries

Germany

Production

Inter West Film

Cast

Fritz Tillmann,Walter Bluhm,Reinhold Bernt,Arthur Reinhardt,Ivan Desny,Maria Schell,Wilhelm Borchert

Director

Victor Vicas

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0047080