Dr. Hart's Diary (1917)

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

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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