Vom Teufel gejagt (1950)

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Country: West Germany
Genres: Crime, Drama
Release: 2018-11-03
Director: Viktor Tourjansky
Writers: Emil Burri , Victor De Fast , Viktor Tourjansky
Language: German
Stars: Hans Albers , Willy Birgel , Lil Dagover , Maria Holst , Heidemarie Hatheyer , Alexander Golling , Heinrich Gretler , Joseph Offenbach , Otto Wernicke , Walter Janssen
Runtime: min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Vom Teufel gejagt , Chased by the Devil , Alma de Satanás (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Vom Teufel gejagt , Dr. Blanks ukjente jeg (Norway) , Paholaisen ahdistamana (Finland)
Plot: Featuring one of the era's most beloved male idols, Hans Albers, as the doctor losing control of his dark side, is Viktor Turzanskij's rarely-screened Jekyll-and-Hyde version Vom Teufel gejagt. For added depth and relevance, a colleague who, years before, had assumed the doctor's guilt when an experiment went badly returns to continue their earlier research-besides, his name is tarnished anyway, where else could he go? It's difficult to not see this very elegantly dispassionate piece (a curious predecessor to the soon rising Arztfilm-wave) as an attempt to discuss its star's and auteur's involvement with the Nazi-era film industry: Albers starred in Herbert Selpin's world-weary anti-British epopee Carl Peters (1941), and Turzanskij directed (and co-wrote) the edgy anti-Polish, anti-labor drama Feinde (1940).
IMDB:tt0043110