Master Over Life and Death
Barbara is married to Georg Bertram, a professor of medicine who once saved her father's life. Things go awry for the couple when she gives birth to a mentally defective child. For Georg, coldly clinical, euthanizing the infant is the only way out. He is about to commit the irreparable when Barbara manages to interrupt his fatal act. By mutual agreement, husband and wife decide that Barbara will go to Saint-Guénolé in Brittany, where she and their son will be cared for by Louise Kerbrec, Georg's former nurse, in the hypothetical hope that the boy's condition will improve. What they do not know yet is that Barbara will meet there another doctor, Daniel Karentis, much more sympathetic than Georg and also much handsomer.
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Cast
16 people
Maria Schell
Barbara Bertram
Known for
White Nights
Superman
Ivan Desny
Dr. Daniel Karentis
Known for
World on a Wire
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Victor Vicas
Wenzel Lüdecke
Frédéric Grendel
Wilhelm Borchert
Professor Georg Bertram
Known for
The Murderers Are Among Us
Horst Hächler
Also in
The Last Bridge
The Original Sin
Fritz Tillmann
Dr. Peter
Also in
Council of the Gods
Mein Mann, das Wirtschaftswunder
Reinhold Bernt
Bahnwärter
Known for
The Blue Angel
Carl Zuckmayer
Olga Limburg
Anna Bertram
Also in
Der Froschkönig
Träum’ nicht, Annette!
Walter Bluhm
Werner Hansen
Also in
Somewhere in Berlin
Unter einem Dach
Victor Vicas Director
United States release January 1, 1956 · Produced in Germany · Languages French, German
Production
Inter West Film
Production
Interwest
Production
Germany
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Herr über Leben und Tod
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
French · German
Release dates
Germany · January 7, 1955
Theatrical
United States · January 1, 1956
Belgium
February 17, 1956
Denmark
May 12, 1958
Finland
June 7, 1957
France
March 7, 1959 · Nice
Portugal
September 28, 1956
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