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TITLE Eternal Mask, The (1937)

ALT__TITLE Die Ewige Maske

DISABILITY General meningitis Mental

COUNTRY Switzerland

LENGTH 74

GENRE Drama

DIRECTOR Werner Hochbaum

CAST Thekla Ahrens

Tom Kraa

Peter Petersen

Franz Schafheitlin

Olga Tschechova

Mathias Wiemann

NOTES B/W.

A doctor believes he has a cure for meningitis and tries it on a patient who is dying. The patient dies and he is reprimanded.

This sends him into a delirious depression. Later the cure is

validated and his colleagues try to bring him out of his

depressed state.

From novel by Leo Lapaire

 


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