Summary 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... View more details
Directed : Victor Vicas
Written : Victor Vicas Frédéric Grendel Horst Hächler
Stars : Ivan Desny Maria Schell Wilhelm Borchert Olga Limburg
Genres : Drama
Release date : Jan 6, 1955
Countries of origin : France West Germany
Language : German French
Filming locations : Berlin, Germany
Production companies : Interwest
Summary 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... View more details
Genres : Drama
Release date : Jan 6, 1955
Countries of origin : France West Germany
Language : German French
Filming locations : Berlin, Germany
Production companies : Interwest
