Dr. Praetorius ( Frauenarzt Dr. Prätorius ) ( Dr. med. Hiob Prätorius )

Dr. Praetorius (DVD) (*)

$34.99

Original Title: Frauenarzt Dr. Prätorius
Alternate Title: Dr. med. Hiob Prätorius
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
149 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White
Booklet
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1950 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Karl Peter Gillmann
Curt Goetz

Written By:
Curt Goetz

Actors:
Curt Goetz ..... Dr. Hiob Prätorius
Valerie von Martens ..... Maria Violetta
Erich Ponto ..... Professor Speiter
Bruno Hübner ..... Shunderson
Albert Florath ..... Pastor Hellriegel
Rudolf Reiff ..... Prof. Klotz
Paul Mederow
Hedwig Wangel
Gertrud Wolle
Wilhelm Meyer-Ottens
Eugen Dumont
Werner Westerholt
Helga Viermann
Margit Kay

Synopsis:

In the face of two world wars, Professor Prätorius, a philanthropist and a surgeon, wants to exterminate the one danger to mankind, the microbe of stupidity, as he states in a spontaneous lecture to his male and female students. When he tries to help a pregnant girl he gets involved more and more in her life and is forced to marry her. The melodramatic comedy was the first film by Curt Goetz after his return from America and a top hit in post-war German cinema. The DVD presents the restored original version as well as a radio play by Curt Goetz from 1947 and an interview with Valerie von Martens, his wife who performed with him in all his films and radio plays.

Frauenarzt Dr. Prätorius / Dr. Praetorius - West-Germany 1949 - Directed and written by: Curt Goetz & Karl Peter Gillmann, based on the play by Curt Goetz - Cinematography by: Fritz Arno Wagner - Music by: Franz Grothe) - Cast: Curt Goetz (Dr. Hiob Prätorius), Valerie von Martens (Maria Violetta), Erich Ponto (Professor Speiter), Bruno Hübner (Shunderson), Albert Florath (Pastor Höllriegel), Rudolf Reiff (Professor Klotz) - Produced by: Hans Domnick Filmproduktion GmbH, Göttingen - Première: January 15, 1950 (Turm-Palast, Frankfurt am Main)

Erinnerungen an Curt Goetz - Valerie von Martens-Goetz erzählt / Remembering Curt Goetz with Valerie von Martens-Goetz - West Germany 1983 - Directed and written by: Horst Jaedicke - Photographed by: Heribert Schuster - TV edited by: Andreas Oesterle - Produced by: Süddeutscher Rundfunk (today: Südwestrundfunk), Stuttgart

On the 30th of April, 1945, American troops marched into Munich. One week later, on the 8th of May, came the unconditional surrender of the German Reich under Admiral Dönitz. Munich was one of the cities that had suffered the greatest devastation. 90% of the inner city lay in ruins, it had lost 22,346 soldiers in battle, 6,632 people to bombings, and the injured and homeless came to, respectively, 15,000 and 30,000. Though most movie houses had been either destroyed or damaged, screenings had still taken place in 15 Munich cinemas at the end of April. Likewise intact was the premises of Bavaria-Film at Geiselgasteig, where work had still proceeded into spring 1945 on productions such as Erich Engel's Emil Jannings comedy WO IST HER BELLING?, the Theo Lingen films PHILINE and LIEBESHEIRAT and Robert A. Stemmle's GELD INS HAUS, with Hans Moser all films that had not been completed by the end of the war. On the 10th of May the Bavaria-Film studios (Geiselgasteig) were put under the control of the 6870th District Information Services Control Command of the Information Control Division (ICD). Although Information Control regulation No. 1, that came into force on the 12th of May, allowed for exceptions to the ban on German film activity, subject to registration and licensing, at first no German productions were permitted. The only exception seems to have been Willi Cronauer, who in June 1945 was already able to shoot footage in the ruined city for his privately financed documentary film project MÜNCHEN 1945. Filming begins on the 3rd of June, 1945, when, for the first time in years, a Corpus Christi procession goes through Munich. Cronauer never finishes editing his material, only occasionally showing a rough cut, "without music or words or stars," as the Süddeutsche Zeitung put it. Bavaria-Film in Geiselgasteig is forbidden production activity. Trustees are put in charge and only technical services may be offered. On the 25th of July, a few Munich cinemas that have not been destroyed are reopened though only for the entertainment of U.S. soldiers. Not until the 1st of August does a cinema for civilians open in Munich. Subtitled American films, all emanating from the Allgemeinen Filmverleih (AFI), set up on the Bavaria grounds and subservient to the ICD, monopolise the schedules. The WELT IM FILM newsreel, produced since May in London, precedes the features. When production of the newsreel is transferred from London to Geiselgasteig in August, 1945, there is a significant increase in items about Munich and its surroundings. While the founding of German production companies had already been licensed in the other occupation zones, not much was happening in the American one. On the 14th of July Erich Pommer arrives for three weeks as American ICD Film Production Control Officer and visits Bavaria-Film at Geiselgasteig. In an August, 1945, press conference he explains that the German cinema's future, and overseas interest in post-war German film activity, lies in "contemporary material, grown out of the experience of Germany in ruins." Pommer exerts pressure to have the former Reich film assets utilised to build up the studios at Tempelhof and Geiselgasteig as functioning film production centres. He also implements the granting of production licenses in the American zone, from the 20th of November, 1946: the first to receive them in Munich are Fritz Stapenhorst (Carlton-Film GmbH), Fritz Thiery (Bavaria-Filmkunst Treuhandschaft and Helios Film GmbH) and Harald Braun and Jacob Geis (Neue deutsche Filmgesellschaft). Braun and Geis had both already been active in film production during the Third Reich, but without participating in any incriminating propaganda films. In April, 1947, in the ruins of the Regina-Palast Hotel and at the Munich-Geiselgasteig studios, shooting begins on the first feature film in the American zone, ZWISCHEN GESTERN UND MORGEN, for which a whole corps of old UFA stars is obtained. Also on hand is Hildegard Knef, who had played supporting roles for UFA in the last months of the war and had already appeared in the first German post-war feature in the Soviet occupation zone, DIE MÖRDER SIND UNTER UNS (1946). The WELT IM FILM newsreel features the filming in an item entitled "Shooting begins in Geiselgasteig" in its edition no. 102 (9th of May, 1946). In the Münchner Merkur, Hans Helmut Kirst reports on the festive premiere of the 11th of April, 1947: "Yesterday evening the first German film of the U.S. Zone had its premiere in the Luitpold-Theater. The Governor of Bavaria, Mr. Wagoner, and representatives of the military government, the ministries and the Munich Municipality were present. Speeches were made by Mr. Rogers, Chief of the Film, Theater and Music Branch, Secretary Sattler and Lord Mayor Dr. Scharnagel. After the well-received film Winnie Markus, Willy Birgel, Viktor Staal, Adolf Gondrell and Walter Kiaulehn appeared before the audience." According to the distributor Schorcht-Filmverleih, 2,815,265 spectators saw it one of the most successful post-war German films. "The story of a dispersed group of people, whose paths cross in Munich's bombed-out Regina-Palast hotel, impressively conveying the spiritual condition of the atomised post-war German society: Every man for himself and all involved in questions of guilt, repression and collective responsibility. Each is concerned solely with his survival, with his very recent past and the role he played in it. And all en route to an unknown destination. On the one hand, the old conventions, masquerades, on the other hand the children of the new era, with their casual behaviour." (Friedemann Beyer)

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