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Dr. Hart's Diary (1917)

Dr. Hart's Diary poster
Original title
Das Tagebuch des Dr. Hart
Directed by
Paul Leni
Genre
drama film, silent film, war film
Country
Germany
Runtime
1h 11m
Rating
5.2 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A German doctor in a field hospital in occupied Poland during World War I tends to wounded soldiers. The film shows his work and promotes friendship between Germans and Poles.

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What happens

Dr. Hart's Diary (German: Das Tagebuch des Dr. Hart) is a 1917 German silent war film directed by Paul Leni and starring Heinrich Schroth, Käthe Haack and Dagny Servaes. The film depicts a German field hospital in occupied Russian Poland during the ongoing First World War. The film was created as part of a major effort to propagandize the German-Polish friendship that leads to the re-establishment of Poland by German forces in late 1916. It was produced by Paul Davidson's PAGU in association with the propaganda agency BUFA. Shortly afterwards, hoping to produce a number of similar films, the German government founded UFA which PAGU merged into. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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