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Title Paracelsus.

Publication Info. Kino Lorber, 1943.
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2021.

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (105 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
digital
video file MPEG-4 Flash
Note Title from title frames.
Film
In Process Record.
Performer Annelies Reinhold, Fritz Rasp, Harald Kreutzberg, Mathias Wieman, Werner Krauss
Event Originally produced by Kino Lorber in 1943.
Summary A physician, alchemist, and spiritual guru, PARACELSUS (1493-1541) was one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of science. And, like its subject, this 1943 film is shrouded in mystery, even though it was directed by one of the supreme stylists of the German cinema: G.W. Pabst. Werner Krauss (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) stars as the Swiss-born scientist, who faces the seemingly impossible task of protecting the German people from a coming plague, and calming a rising tide of mass hysteria. Despite being called "a remarkably interesting film" by The New York Times's Vincent Canby (when it received its belated U.S. premiere in 1974), PARACELSUS continues to be overlooked, along with most all of the films made in Germany during World War II. With fresh eyes, however, we can see that PARACELSUS is not a propaganda film, but the work of an oppressed artist attempting to convey a humanist, possibly subersive message under the gaze of Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels.
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language In English
Subject Foreign films.
Drama.
Motion pictures.
Genre/Form Feature films.
Added Author W. Pabst, G., film director.
Reinhold, Annelies, actor.
Rasp, Fritz, 1891-1976, actor.
Kreutzberg, Harald, 1902-1968, actor.
Wieman, Mathias, actor.
Krauss, Werner, actor.
Kino Lorber (Firm),. Distributor.
Kanopy (Firm) Distributor.
Music No. 12219642 Kanopy
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