Robert Koch (film)
1939 Nazi propaganda film
- Hellmuth Unger (novel)
- Lotte Neumann
- Gerhard Menzel
- Walter Wassermann
- Paul Josef Cremers
- Gerhard Staab
- Emil Jannings
- Emil Jannings
- Werner Krauss
- Viktoria von Ballasko
- Raimund Schelcher
Production
company
company
Tobis Film
- Tobis Film (Germany)
- UFA (US)
Release date
- 26 September 1939 (1939-09-26)
Running time
Robert Koch (German title: Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes, English title: Robert Koch: The Battle Against Death) is a 1939 Nazi propaganda film directed by Hans Steinhoff and starring Emil Jannings, Werner Krauss and Viktoria von Ballasko.[1] The film was a biopic of the German pioneering microbiologist Robert Koch (1843–1910). It was shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin and premiered at the city's Ufa-Palast am Zoo. The film was made by the Tobis Film company, and was also distributed in the United States by the largest German studio UFA.
Cast
- Emil Jannings as Dr. Robert Koch
- Werner Krauss as Geheimrat Rudolf Virchow
- Viktoria von Ballasko as Schwester Else
- Raimund Schelcher as Koch's Assistant Dr. Fritz von Hartwig
- Hilde Körber as Frau Göhrke
- Theodor Loos as Koch's Assistant Dr. Georg Gaffky
- Otto Graf as Koch's Assistant Dr. Friedrich Löffler
- Hildegard Grethe as Emmy Koch
- Josef Sieber as Waldhüter Göhrke
- Peter Elsholtz as Virchows Sekretär Dr. Karl Wetzel
- Elisabeth Flickenschildt as Baronin von Kossin
- Bernhard Minetti as Sprecher der Gesundbeter
- Paul Bildt as Reichstagsabgeordneter Baron von Kossin
- Paul Dahlke as Lehrer
- Rolf Prasch as Kaiser Wilhelm I.
- Paul Otto as Landrat von Hartwig
- Rudolf Klein-Rogge as Rechnungsrat
- Walter Werner as Amtsdiener Stübecke
- Jakob Tiedtke as Amtsdiener Michalke
- Friedrich Otto Fischer as Otto von Bismarck
- Walter Bechmann as Gesundbeter
- Charly Berger as Gast beim Hofball
- Walter Bruckner
- Ernst Dernburg as Mitglied der Berliner Fakultät
- Fritz Draeger as Gast beim Hofball
- Erich Dunskus as Mitglied der Berliner Fakultät
- Wilhelm Egger-Sell as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu
- Max Harry Ernst as Gast beim Hofball
- Kurt Felden as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu
- Robert Forsch as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu
- Werner Funck as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu
- Georg Gartz as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu
- Herbert Gernot as Arzt
- Bernhard Goetzke as Kochs Patient Netschmann
- Karl Hannemann as Viehhändler
- Karl Haubenreißer as Direktor der Charité
- Karl Heidmann as Gesundbeter
- Kurt Herrmann as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu
- Alfred Heynisch as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu
- Paul Hildebrandt as 2. Assistenzarzt Virchows
- Maria Hofen as Gesundbeterin
- Lucie Höflich as Kochs Patientin Frau Paul
- Carl Jönsson as Mitglied der Berliner Fakultät
- Karl Kahlmann as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu
- Willy Kaiser-Heyl as Mitglied der Berliner Fakultät
- Alfred Karen as Uniformierter beim Empfang des Kaisers
- Fred Köster as Reichstagsdiener
- Paul Luka
- Philipp Manning as Mitglied der Berliner Fakultät
- Heinz Müller as Mann am Stammtisch
- Karl Platen as Herr Kruhlke
- Werner Pledath as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institut
- Klaus Pohl as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu
- Paul Rehkopf as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu
- Josef Reithofer as 1. Assistenzarzt Virchows
- Ferdinand Robert as Gast beim Hofball
- Werner Schott as Arzt
- Walter Schramm-Duncker as Aktenabhefter
- Charlotte Schultz as Reinemachefrau
- Franz Stein as Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu
- Max Vierlinger
- Egon Vogel as Mitglied der Berliner Fakultät
- Jens von Hagen as Gast beim Hofball
- Leopold von Ledebur as Reichstagsdiener
- Hubert von Meyerinck as Fähnrich Graf
- Elisabeth von Ruets as Gast beim Hofball
- Eduard von Winterstein as Prof. Ernst von Bergmann
- Karl Wagner as Menzel
- Auguste Wanner-Kirsch as Patientin
- Gertrud Wolle as Reinemachefrau
References
- ^ Reimer & Reimer p.189
Bibliography
- Reimer, Robert C. & Reimer, Carol J. The A to Z of German Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2010.
External links
- Robert Koch at IMDb
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Films directed by Hans Steinhoff
- Clothes Make the Man (1921)
- Biribi (1922)
- The False Dimitri (1922)
- Inge Larsen (1923)
- Man Against Man (1924)
- Countess Maritza (1925)
- The Man Who Sold Himself (1925)
- The Master of Death (1926)
- Vienna – Berlin (1926)
- Sons in Law (1926)
- Family Gathering in the House of Prellstein (1927)
- The Tragedy of a Lost Soul (1927)
- The Bordello in Rio (1927)
- The Countess of Sand (1928)
- Angst (1928)
- The Three Kings (1929)
- The Alley Cat (1929)
- Everybody Wins (1930)
- Love's Carnival (1930)
- My Leopold (1931)
- The True Jacob (1931)
- Headfirst into Happiness (1931)
- The Paw (1931)
- Scampolo (1932)
- Madame Wants No Children (1933)
- Love Must Be Understood (1933)
- Hitler Youth Quex (1933)
- Decoy (1934)
- Enjoy Yourselves (1934)
- The Island (1934)
- Mother and Child (1934)
- The Valley of Love (1935)
- The Old and the Young King (1935)
- A Woman of No Importance (1936)
- Yesterday and Today (1938, short)
- Dance on the Volcano (1938)
- Robert Koch (1939)
- The Vulture Wally (1940)
- Uncle Krüger (1941)
- Rembrandt (1942)
- Gabriele Dambrone (1943)
- Melusine (1944)
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