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Professor Mamlock
GERMANY · 1961

Professor Mamlock

Konrad Wolf
antisemitism willful ignorance Nazi Germany family conflict professional ambition
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Synopsis

A Jewish chief of surgery in 1933 Germany remains blind to the rising Nazi threat, dismissing political dissent from his son and a patient, until his family faces increasing anti-Semitic persecution.

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