''Doctor Schäfer'' (German: ''Frauenarzt Dr. Schäfer'') is a 1928 German

silent film A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, w ...

directed by

Jacob Fleck Jacob Fleck (8 November 1881 in Vienna as Jacob Julius Fleck – 19 September 1953, also in Vienna) was an Austrian film director, screenwriter, film producer and cameraman. He is noted for his long-standing professional partnership with his wife ...

and

Luise Fleck Luise Fleck, also known as Luise Kolm or Luise Kolm-Fleck, née Louise or Luise Veltée (1 August 1873–15 March 1950), was an Austrian film director, and has been considered the second ever female feature film director in the world, after Al ...

.Bock & Bergfelder p.23 The film's sets were designed by the

art director Art director is a title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, live-action and animated film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ...

Max Heilbronner.

Cast

Leopold Kramer Leopold Kramer (29 September 1869 – 29 October 1942) was an Austrian stage actor, stage and film actor. Selected filmography * ''The Eye of the Buddha'' (1919) * ''Ungarische Rhapsodie'' (1928) * ''Frauenarzt Dr. Schäfer'' (1928) * ''Die gehe ...

as Professor Hausen * Evelyn Holt as Evelyne Hausen, seine Tochter *

Iván Petrovich Iván Petrovich (; 1 January 1894 – 18 October 1962) was a Serbian film actor and singer. He was the first actor from Yugoslavia to have a successful international movie career. Petrovich mainly worked in German cinema, but also collaborated ...

as Dr. Schäfer, Frauenarzt *

Agnes Petersen-Mozzuchinowa Agnes or Agness may refer to: People *Agnes (name), the given name, and a list of people named Agnes or Agness *Agnes (surname), list of people with the surname *Agnes (case study) (born 1939), pseudonym for one of the first studied transgender w ...

as Lucie Walker, Freundin Evelynens *

Hans Albers Hans Philipp August Albers (22 September 1891 – 24 July 1960), also known by his nickname “der blonde Hans” (The Blond Hans), was a German actor and singer. He was the biggest male movie star in Germany between 1930 and 1960 and one of the m ...

as Dr. Greber *

Imre Ráday Imre Ráday (4 September 1905 – 12 March 1983) was a Hungarian film actor. Ráday was born in Budapest, then part of Austria-Hungary and died in Budapest, Hungary in 1983. Selected filmography * '' The Trial of Donald Westhof'' (1927) * '' Th ...

as Charleston, Professor Hausens Neffe

References

Bibliography

* Hans-Michael Bock and Tim Bergfelder. ''The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books.

External links

* 1928 films Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by Luise Fleck Films directed by Jacob Fleck German silent feature films German black-and-white films Films scored by Willy Schmidt-Gentner {{1920s-Germany-silent-film-stub