Vom Teufel gejagt

Vom Teufel gejagt (1950)

03 Nov 2018 • Crime, Drama
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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).

Emil Burri, Victor De Fast, Viktor Tourjansky
Writer
Hans Albers, Willy Birgel, Lil Dagover
Starring

Language: German
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Country: West Germany
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6.2

IMDb (42 votes)
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