Paracelsus (1943)

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Country: Germany
Genres: Biography, Drama
Release: 1943-03-12
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Writers: Kurt Heuser
Language: German
Stars: Werner Krauss , Harry Langewisch , Annelies Reinhold , Mathias Wieman , Fritz Rasp , Peter Martin Urtel , Herbert Hübner , Josef Sieber , Rudolf Blümner , Harald Kreutzberg
Runtime: 104 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Paracelsus , Чудесный исцелитель , Paracelsus (Poland) , Paracelsus (Germany) , Парацельс (Russian Federation) , Paracelse (France, French Republic)
Plot: Made by famed director, G.W. Pabst, at UFA, under the Third Reich, Paracelsus is the story of the Renaissance era Swiss physician/alchemist/astrologer,, Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim. Though Pabst had tried,, he was unable to escape the Nazis, and was forced to direct under the Third Reich's auspices. Though Nazi-era system has, in large part been banned but omission of public showings, many films of this period and regime are quite good (or at minimum, interesting), as they hold up a mirror to the Nazis propaganda machine controlled by Joseph Goebbels.
IMDB:tt0036249