Professor Mamlock (1961 film)

Professor Mamlock is an East German drama film. It was released in 1961.

The film was adapted from the play Professor Mamlock, written by the directors father Friedrich Wolf during 1933, when he was in exile in France. It featured most of the cast that participated in the 1959 Kammerspiele staging of the play.When Wolf was asked why he decided to make another film adaptation of the play the first was done in 1938 he answered our objective was not the persecution of Jews... But the destiny of a liberal intellectual, who is forsaken by his class. This individual no longer believes in the middle class, and yet he does not find his way to the working class. His only escape becomes suicide. ........

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