Professor Mamlock
East Germany
1961
100 Min
Black and White
German
Synopsis
1932,33. The Jewish professor Mamlock, a senior consultant in a surgery clinic, is not interested in politics. When his son joins the resistance he expels him from home. He does not believe his daughter Ruth that she has been expelled from school because of her Jewish ascendance. But soon after, he himself gets into trouble. He always felt to be German and fought in the First World War for Germany. Now he finds no other solution but suicide. Friedrich Wolf, father of Konrad Wolf, wrote this drama. —Progress Film
Director
Konrad Wolf
Konrad Wolf was born in Hechingen in 1925 and died in Berlin in 1982. In 1933, his family emigrated to the Soviet Union. At the age of 18, he joined the Red Army and came to Germany as a lieutenant in 1945. He studied Directing at the Moscow Film School in 1949 and worked as an assistant director to Kurt Maetzig at the DEFA Studios in 1953. His first feature film was Einmal ist keinmal (1955). From 1965, Wolf was president of the East German Academy of Arts. His major films include: Genesung (1956), Lissy (1957), Sun Seekers (Sonnensucher, 1958), Stars (Sterne, 1959), The Divided Sky (Der geteilte Himmel, 1964), I Was Nineteen (Ich war 19, 1967), The Naked Man in the Stadium (Der nackte Mann auf dem Sportplatz, 1974), and Mama, I’m Alive (Mama, ich lebe, 1976). —german films
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