{{short description|1958 film}} {{Infobox film | name = The Doctor of Stalingrad | image = The Doctor of Stalingrad.jpg | caption = | director = Géza von Radványi | producer = Walter Traut | writer = {{ubl|Heinz G. Konsalik (novel)|Werner P. Zibaso}} | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|O.E. Hasse|Eva Bartok|Hannes Messemer|Mario Adorf}} | music = Siegfried Franz | editing = René Le Hénaff | cinematography = Georg Krause | studio = Divina-Film | distributor = Gloria Film | released = {{film date|1958|2|20|df=y}} | runtime = 110 minutes | country = West Germany | language = {{ubl|German|Russian}} | budget = | gross = }}
'''''The Doctor of Stalingrad''''' ({{langx|de|'''Der Arzt von Stalingrad'''}} also known as '''''Battle Inferno''''') is a 1958 German drama film directed by Géza von Radványi and starring O.E. Hasse, Eva Bartok and Hannes Messemer. It is an adaptation of the 1956 novel ''The Doctor of Stalingrad'' by Heinz G. Konsalik.<ref>Davidson & Hake p. 140</ref> The film addresses the issue of German Prisoners of War held by the Soviet Union in camps well into the 1950s. The principal character Doctor Fritz Böhler was loosely modelled on Ottmar Kohler, known as the "Angel of Stalingrad".
The film's sets were designed by the art directors Willy Schatz and Robert Stratil.
==Main cast== * O.E. Hasse as Doctor Fritz Böhler * Eva Bartok as Captain Alexandra Kasalinskaja * Hannes Messemer as Oberleutnant Pjotr Markow * Mario Adorf as Pelz, Sanitäter * Walter Reyer as Doctor Sellnow * Vera Tschechowa as Tamara * Paul Bösiger as Fähnrich Peter Schultheiß * Leonard Steckel as Major Dr. Kresin, Distriktarzt * Valéry Inkijinoff as Oberstleutnant Worotilow, Lagerkommandant * Michael Ande as Sergej, Worotilows Sohn * Siegfried Lowitz as Walter Grosse * Til Kiwe as Sauerbrunn * Wilmut Borell as Pastor * Rolf von Nauckhoff as Oberst Eklund, Swedish Red Cross
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Bibliography== * {{cite book | last1 = Davidson | first1 = John | last2 = Hake | first2 = Sabine | title = Framing the Fifties: Cinema in a Divided Germany | publisher = Berghahn Books | year = 2009 | isbn = 978-1-84545-536-1 }}
==External links== *{{IMDb title|0051376}} {{Géza von Radványi}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Doctor of Stalingrad, The}} Category:1958 films Category:West German films Category:German war drama films Category:1958 German-language films Category:1958 Russian-language films Category:Films about the Eastern Front (World War II) Category:World War II prisoner of war films Category:Films directed by Géza von Radványi Category:Films based on German novels Category:Films set in the 1940s Category:Films set in the 1950s Category:Films set in 1958 Category:Films about the Battle of Stalingrad Category:Medical-themed films Category:Gloria Film films Category:German World War II films Category:1958 multilingual films Category:German multilingual films Category:1958 German films Category:German-language war drama films Category:Russian-language war drama films Category:Films based on works by Heinz G. Konsalik Category:West German black-and-white films
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